i bought an external hard drive yesterday and last nite this computer was running winxp all nite long.
so i get up this morning and reboot to opensuse 10.3. i can’t connect to the internet on my third pci nic. the same problem as before, i just try a different nic and it works?
the onboard nic crapped out a year ago. i tried reconfiguring the nic, setting up the dsl connection again, rebooting, everything and it would still not connect. i spent hours farting around. i did the same with the onboard lan and same result.
this is how i got the onboard lan to work. i rebooted to windows and reinstalled the lan driver. i rebooted to suse and the internet still would not connect until i reconfigured, for the third time, the onboard lan!
i think something is rotten in denmark. the present nic had been working for 6 months and i rarely used windows. any thoughts?
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> this is unbelievable.
>
> i bought an external hard drive yesterday and last nite this computer
> was running winxp all nite long.
>
> so i get up this morning and reboot to opensuse 10.3. i can’t connect
> to the internet on my third pci nic. the same problem as before, i just
> try a different nic and it works?
>
> the onboard nic crapped out a year ago. i tried reconfiguring the nic,
> setting up the dsl connection again, rebooting, everything and it would
> still not connect. i spent hours farting around. i did the same with the
> onboard lan and same result.
>
> this is how i got the onboard lan to work. i rebooted to windows and
> reinstalled the lan driver. i rebooted to suse and the internet still
> would not connect until i reconfigured, for the third time, the onboard
> lan!
>
> i think something is rotten in denmark. the present nic had been
> working for 6 months and i rarely used windows. any thoughts?
>
>
Perhaps we might be enlightened with the make and model of the aforementioned
accursed network card?
Also, perhaps one might bequeath us with the output of the ‘lspci’ command?
Alas, you’ll need to be root to run that command, or use the sudo command.
the nics were quite old. the latest nic was a sundance, before that a 3com and the first one i forget the type. the onboard lan is a realtek.
linux-0cts:/home/wfaire # lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.1 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.2 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.3 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. PT890 Host Bridge
00:00.4 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:00.7 Host bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. CN700/VN800/P4M800CE/Pro Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 PCI Bridge
00:09.0 Ethernet controller: D-Link System Inc DL10050 Sundance Ethernet (rev 12)
00:0f.0 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VIA VT6420 SATA RAID Controller (rev 80)
00:0f.1 IDE interface: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C PIPC Bus Master IDE (rev 06)
00:10.0 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.1 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.2 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.3 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller (rev 81)
00:10.4 USB Controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. USB 2.0 (rev 86)
00:11.0 ISA bridge: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8237 ISA bridge [KT600/K8T800/K8T890 South]
00:11.5 Multimedia audio controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Controller (rev 60)
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6102 [Rhine-II] (rev 78)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600]
01:00.1 Display controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV350 AR [Radeon 9600] (Secondary)
i posted a similar thread a few months ago, perhaps under the name lfark. nobody informed me about the lspci command. many thanks.
[Your scenario sounds similar to other glitches I’ve read about, where
hardware ‘state’ from Windows doesn’t get reset during a warm-reboot. The
fix is simply to chop the power between boots.]
i always do a cold boot, and having read several threads i unplugged it as well. it didn’t work. my next attempt would have been switching the nic to another pci slot.
i am pretty sure that there was no internet connection last nite as well.
i cold booted to windows many times since i put in the sundance nic but only used windows for an hour or two at most.
it seems to me that this is some sort of virus or hack specifically to make people not use suse or linux. cuo bono?
I’m using a PCI Realtek 8180 wireless lan card. When it comes to linux this card is a pain in the backside.
Sometimes when i restart the computer from one operating system to the other it refuses to find any ssids. Therefore not allowing me to use the internet.
Anyway I was using ndiswrapper on opensuse 10.3 and it was very buggy, I was upset because I really love opensuse… but I can’t go without the internet… Now that I installed opensuse 11 it doesn’t seem to need ndiswrapper as the drivers are there! but… it didn’t pick up any ssid’s… so i restarted onto xp, had a look on the forums… went back to opensuse… went back to windows a couple of times… then i went back to opensuse, logged off and logged on accidently… and what do you know it… its magically working… I have no idea how… but I hope it stays this way and I dred the day I ever have to upgrade opensuse… my problems always are with the network cards and sound cards…
I can’t wait for the day when everything just works…
The operating system is the work of genious though… I love it. Someday I hope it becomes the best of the best!
but… it didn’t pick up any ssid’s… so i restarted onto xp, had a look on the forums… went back to opensuse… went back to windows a couple of times… then i went back to opensuse, logged off and logged on accidently… and what do you know it… its magically working… 
I have no idea how… but I hope it stays this way and I dred the day I ever have to upgrade opensuse… my problems always are with the network cards and sound cards…