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karag

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Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 84

[solved] dhcp: one card OK, nothing on the others

Hi all -
I'm still trying to fix another network problem where my network dies when using bittorrent. So I bought another NIC to see if it helped, but now that won't work.
At the moment I have my old card in, ne2k-pci module, no problems at all (other than the problem mentioned above!). dhcp gets an ip address and off you go.
HOwever, I also have an onboard forcedeth NIC and a new one I bought - module 8139too.
I can load these modules, bring them up in ifconfig but they both refuse to get an address via dhcp. Here is output with the 8139 card:
dmesg

8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27
ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [APC2] enabled at IRQ 17
ACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:09.0[A] -> Link [APC2] -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 22
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8b76000, 00:0e:2e:8b:16:f5, IRQ 22
eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8100B/8139D'
lan1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1

errors.log

Dec 15 19:59:39 kara dhcpcd[3200]: terminating on signal 15
Dec 15 20:00:50 kara dhcpcd[3384]: terminating on signal 2
Dec 15 20:08:53 kara ACPI: Getting cpuindex for acpiid 0x1
Dec 15 20:13:24 kara dhcpcd[2973]: terminating on signal 15
Dec 15 20:16:02 kara dhcpcd[3800]: terminating on signal 2

why won't these other NIC's work, when my old card is easy to start?
thanks.

karag

Member

Registered: 2006-09-05

Posts: 84

Re: [solved] dhcp: one card OK, nothing on the others

hmm.. well it seems these cable modems are fussy things.
All I had to do was reset the modem for a few minutes whilst attached to relevant card, and now it works ok!