Just wanted to bring to ur notice something I had read elsewhere. It seems that when security patches from MS are applied the eeprom registers on the network card are sometimes set. After this the card stops working under debian.
I encountered this problem on 2 machines. googling gave me the links below and I installed mii-diag ( apt-get ) and then flashed the eeprom. After some trial and error and one reboot the network started working on one of the machines.
Both the machines run debian woody stable. The etc/network/interfaces looks like
auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet dhcp iface eth1 inet dhcp
Previously I used to get the message autonegotiation failed from dhclient. The driver for which it worked is natsemi ( Nat Semi D83815 ) and the other one is dmfe.
Here are the links http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2164 http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
I have RH also on the box with natsemi and somehow it seems to override this problem. Why can't we have this on debian? sorry for the long mail but hope this helps some people.
thanks panda
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