[Techtalk] ethernet card problem

[Anne Wainwright]

Hello, Maria,

What I meant was for it to be disabled in the BIOS.

I had an onboard (on motherboard) network card fail. When I plugged a
replacement card into a slot the system would not allow two network
cards with the same IP address. I found it could be disabled in the
BIOS which solved the issue, albeit that this was probably on a Windows
box.

bestest
Anne

 On Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:22:31
-0800 Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:

> This hasn't happened again, so I'm leaving it alone for the time
> being, but I am curious what you mean by disabling the onboard
> network card? I'm not using it (iow, I don't say anything about it in 
> /etc/network/interfaces), but I didn't know I could actually disable
> it. What does that mean?
> 
> cheers,
> maria
> 
> Anne Wainwright wrote:
> > Hello, Maria,
> > 
> > Just a thought that might or might not be applicable here, have you
> > disabled any onboard network card?
> > 
> > Anne
> > 
> > On Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:23:30 -0800
> > Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:
> > 
> >> Greetings,
> >>
> >> I was having intermittent problems with the onboard NIC of my file 
> >> server. People would complain about the network being very slow,
> >> and I would see something like this in the logs:
> >>
> >> Mar  5 11:31:55 billie kernel: [548810.816011] NETDEV WATCHDOG:
> >> eth1: transmit timed out
> >> Mar  5 11:31:55 billie kernel: [548810.836475] r8169: eth1: link up
> >>
> >> So, I installed an Intel PWLA8391GT 10/ 100/ 1000Mbps PCI PRO/1000
> >> GT Desktop Adapter 1 x RJ45 - OEM, and started using it instead.
> >> So, now occasionally when things get busy, the NIC just fails. I
> >> get no messages in the logs at all, and I have to log in to the
> >> machine locally, and restart networking, and then it seems to
> >> recover fine. The motherboard isn't terribly old, but I'm thinking
> >> that is what the problem must be. But, I really don't want to swap
> >> out the motherboard, so hoping someone will tell me something
> >> different to try. And any ideas why there are no log messages?
> >>
> >> thanks,
> >> maria
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