Well actually, I need to make sure it was apic that was giving me fits. I actually upgraded my kernel too, and I noticed 2.6.3 had many fixes for network modules.
Thanks for the ammend line, lilo's man page is way too convoluted, and lilo.conf's man page is way too simplistic. Do you really think the same person wrote both?
Thanks,
Isamoor
]]>Like sounds good....but no idea what it does (SMP)
Mr Green
sorry must not confuse issue.....
]]>Don't make it acpi=off though; acpi isn't your problem. Make it exactly the thing you typed in when you first booted (noapic).
I just wanted to make sure that you knew the difference between acpi and apic.
]]>Is there anyway, short of not compiling apci support into the kernel, that I can make it boot with noapic everytime? I'm still running lilo since grub is giving me fits. Can I squeeze it in lilo.conf anywhere?
Thank you very much for all your help.
Isamoor
]]> ifconfig -v
before and after stop of working?
any info from
dmesg
(errors about interupts or so?)
]]>Also, turning off as much as possible in the BIOS that is not needed (especially the stuff coming from the NForce3 chipset).
As I said - just guessing ;-)
]]>The most annoying part is that I can't update my system because the connection keeps dying before pacman -Syu can finish.
Thanks for the help.
Missing arch bunches!
Isamoor
]]>Thanks,
Isamoor
]]>I recently did a major upgrade on a lot of my hardware. I bought a new NForce 3 motherboards and a Athlon 64 3000+ cpu. I kept most everything else except for the ram. Since this is a NForce 3 board, and I didn't feel like patching the 2.4 kernels, I am running the 2.6 series. This same problem has come up in 2.6.1 and 2.6.2.
Neither of my onboard NICs are supported by a kernel module, so I have loaded in a PCI ethernet card. The first one was a netgear that needed the natsemi module. I added natsemi to my rc.conf and have dhcp enabled. It all boots up fine and connects just fine too. After a few minutes, the connection stops though. I threw in a realtek 8139 PCI card which uses a different module and I got the same results. I am sure the PCI cards are fine, they have been tested in another computer, and under windows in the same PC that linux won't work on.
I haven't been able to sync pacman for awhile because my connection keeps dying in the middle of downloading.
Does anyone have any suggestions? Are there any particular logs I should look at?
Thanks,
Isamoor
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