On Sat, May 11, 2002 at 11:27:34PM +0100, Alex Hunsley wrote: ... | I've narrowed down the problem with my box to being network related. ... | I'm tempted to think I have a faulty network card (using the 3c59x | driver), but maybe this isn't the case - anyone have any bright ideas about | other causes of this behaviour?
Bad memory is possible. Did you try memtest86? There's a package in
woody and sid. It has no dependencies because it is just a
specialized kernel that gets dropped in /boot. You can also download
the image from the website and use 'dd' to put it on a floppy.
Try another NIC to see if that's the problem. Try that NIC in a
different machine.
I suppose the PCI bus could be hosed. I don't know how to test that
other than by the process of elimination (if it's not the memory, and
not the NIC and not the CPU ...).
HTH,
-D
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