The kernel log shows the message in the subject line among its startup messages. It also shows it if I do ifdown eth1 followed by ifup. DHCPDISCOVER from the card is failing; if I interpret the message the driver is not loading properly, so DHCP has no chance. My dhcp server isn't reporting any activity.
Networking in general has been erratic on this machine, working sometimes and not others. I also have an ethernet 1000 interface on the motherboard that was even more trouble. I think it gave similar errors to the one in the subject line. A few days ago I had three systems fighting over the card: 1. /etc/network/interfaces says it should do dhcp, and was auto 2. zeroconf was trying to give it some other ip addresses 3. hotplug/udev Typically the card worked, although sometimes I had to ifdown and ifup manually. Sometimes it showed an IP assigned from zeroconf but still worked with the dhcp assigned IP. A few days ago I removed zeroconf; the card was working when I did ifdown/up then. I've also done an upgrade since then. The motherboard is a very recent Intel 945 (PSN, I think). Chip is Pentium IV. SMP Linux kernel 2.6.15. SATA disk drive. The kernel documentation gave some debugging suggestions for the e100 driver. I tried dmesg -n 8 (using modprobe to remove and insert the driver), but nothing interesting shows in the log (at least that I can tell--nothing that looks like an error message). I've searched the net and found that messages about similar errors seem to involve problems with the driver itself. However, I'm not sure if my symptoms are quite the same. I wouldn't expect difficulties with Intel ethernet, but the newness of the motherboard may have caused some problems (and one of the threads did discuss interference with the SATA drive). I'd appreciate any suggestions about how to proceed. Thanks. Ross Boylan P.S. I also tried starting a Linux Console session in KDE's Konsole, but it doesn't seem to display anything. Should it, or is that just a different style for a regular terminal? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
