Hi On Sunday 17 September 2006 23:19, Peter Thomassen wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still introducing a friend of mine to Linux by phone. > > Yesterday and the days before, his Realtek 8139 NCI worked out of the box > using DHCP. Today, no IP is received over DHCP; instead, the boot script > does several tries after different intervals and finally gives up. > [snip] > After the reboot, I noticed that 8139too wasn't loaded, so we modprobe'd > it; then ifdown eth0, ifup eth0. No success. > > Maybe it's useful to know that dmesg says that eth0 is a Realtek 8139. I > don't know what to do -- do you? > > Thanks, > Peter
I've had something similar happen with my desktop. Similar hardware, realtek 8139 PCI ethernet card. If I hibernate the computer from windows (either 2000 or vista), windows somehow disables the NIC. The router no longer shows a connection. Linux doesn't manage to enable the NIC during bootup, (the moduels are loaded, it thinks the interface is up, but the router still shows no connection) and I need to boot windows to fix things. Andrew V. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
