Re: Perl kills NE2000: needs power-cycle or Microsoft to fix!?

Robert James Kaes (rjkaes@flarenet.com)
Tue, 15 Dec 1998 11:47:15 -0500

Tim,
I've seen this problem too with my NE2000 clone. I'm also running
2.0.36, and I also chalked it up to a bad card. Except, I replaced to
old NE2000 clone with a new NE2000 clone. Same problem. Sometimes the
ethernet connection just dies for no reason. Now, occasionally it will
come back to life in a few seconds, but most of the time I need to
completely reboot the system (a complete power down). I'm not a kernel
hacker, so I have no idea what is causing the problem, but I thought I
should let those who do hack know there is a problem on at least two
computers here. :)

Later,
Robert James Kaes

Tim Smith wrote:
>
> I wrote about a weird situation where my ethernet died while updating perl
> modules:
> > Any suggestions on what I should do? The following possibilities come to
> > mind:
> >
> > 1. Get the latest NE2000 driver and see if that helps.
> >
> > 2. Upgrade to 2.0.36 and see if that helps.
>
> I upgraded to 2.0.36. I've since seen my ethernet drop dead at least once,
> and possibly twice (I was at work, and the machine in question is at home,
> and became unreachable today, but was back when I checked an hour later. I
> can rule out ISP problems 'cause I could reach other customers of my ISP
> who are using the same DSL equipment as I at the ISP's end).
>

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