[eepro100] Sudden "Network unreachable" ...

Gerd Aschemann gerd@aschemann.net
Mon Oct 14 08:11:01 2002


On Thu, Oct 10, 2002 at 04:19:00PM +0900, Donald Becker wrote:
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Gerd Aschemann wrote:
> > every now and then my EtherExpressPro100 of my IBM ThinkPad A21p
> > looses the IP connection (if not ethernet conn.?).
>
> What error message does the driver report?

There are no error messages reported via syslog or Console #10.

> > a) The one (1.25) found at scyld didn't compile: It threw a lot of
> >    errors, so I postponed my try ...
>
> What errors?

I had compile errors since I didn't have the respective .h files
(pci-scan.h etc.).

> The usual compile instructions are:
>
> mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
> cd /tmp/netdrivers/
> ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
> tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
> make
> make install

Now I could compile, install and relaunch the new modules, but the
situation didn't become better ... I still see dropped packages:

64 bytes from sg0 (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=352 ttl=255 time=0.223 ms
64 bytes from sg0 (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=354 ttl=255 time=0.199 ms
64 bytes from sg0 (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=355 ttl=255 time=0.252 ms
64 bytes from sg0 (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=357 ttl=255 time=0.197 ms
64 bytes from sg0 (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=360 ttl=255 time=0.236 ms
64 bytes from sg0 (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=361 ttl=255 time=0.255 ms
64 bytes from sg0 (192.168.2.1): icmp_seq=362 ttl=255 time=0.211 ms

Maybe it's a hardware problem, as Andrey suggested, but I have already
exchanged cables and switches, except for the mini PCI card itself.

Thanks a lot,
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Gerd Aschemann --- Veröffentlichen heißt Verändern (Carmen Thomas)