Hi,
I have a Supermicro X5DP8-G2 board with two onboard Intel gigabit cards (e1000 driver). For some unknown reason, eth0 does not work half of the time when the machine boots - the interface is nominally up, but no traffic flows. (Syslog reports that "link is up" anyway.) If I run
/etc/init.d/network restart
manually, everything is back to normal. This happens under Redhat 9 and Fedora Core 1 and 2. The second interface always works well.
The drivers are written by Intel, so I wrote them, but I don't expect a quick reply. Can anybody suggest some tests that would tell whether it's a hardware problem or a wacky driver issue?
Thanks, Simon --
Simon (Vsevolod ILyushchenko) simonf@cshl.edu http://www.simonf.com
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