Networking X-file

[johnwebb]

I am sure there is a simple explanation but it sure is weird.

I bought a new case for my system and switched over the componets from the old one. The only hardware changes were removing one of two floppy drives, connecting my ide zip drive as hdd instead of hdb, and moving the network and sound cards up one slot each. The first sign of trouble was during startup in the new case. Although the drives were detected properly by the bios it would not go past the cdrom to boot from the floppy or harddrive. I changed the boot sequence to boot from the harddrive first. Now I could boot but I could not get a network connection. Tried reseating the card, changing the cable, and finaly the card. Nothing, eth0 fails at boot. Tried asigning a static ip and gateway, checked the default route but still could not connect. The connection lites on the hub and the nic card lite up when I plug the cable in and other computers on the network work.

I am running RedHat7.2 with the Ximian desktop, and was watching the Brady Bunch episode of the X-files when this happened.

I know the truth is out there. Please help me find it.

John Webb

[jumpedintothefire]

Sounds like the defaults were loaded in to the bios, check to see if PNP OS has turned back on in the BIOS, and turn it off.

[DMR]

You might also have created a resource conflict when you changed PCI slots. Other motherboard resources such as AGP or an onboard SCSI controller will share resouces with different PCI slots. If you've put a card in the slot closest to the AGP slot, move it; that slot shares an IRQ with the AGP.

[johnwebb]

Double checked the bios, pnp was set to ``no''. I loaded the default values just to be sure, but still no luck.

I only have two pci cards, nic and sound. And although the nic card was not next to the agp slot I put the cards back into the original slots without any change. /proc/interups did not show any conflicts before or after the change and the sound card works.

I also tried unpluging the aux cooling fans, and even went so far as to install a differnt harddrive and reloaded RedHat. Since this didn't work I am begining to think I hosed the motherboard when I switched it. I am going to try putting everything back in the old case, but I would find it beleive that I have a case/power supply conflict.

[DMR]

Quel Bummer!

:(

[johnwebb]

This is too weird ... I put everything back in the old case, and it works. I will have to do some further investigation here. Maybe during the Art Bell show ...

[jumpedintothefire]

Living up to the tread name...... :eek: