Check your BIOS "Power on LAN" or "Wake on LAN" settings. Regards Tobias söndag 13 oktober 2002 05:19 skrev Tom Diehl: > On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, webmaster wrote: > > Whats with the network card turning off? > > Here is what happens, I log out of "X", exit > > the user back to a log on prompt, after a > > while, I notice my hub link is going the NIC. > > I move the mouse or keyboard, and the NIC will > > come back online. Do I have to have a user > > logged in all the time to keep the NIC online? > > Or, is there a config somewhere to keep a > > perm connection? > > My guess would be you have some kind of power managment kicking in. > Moving the mouse wakes it up. I do not see this behaviour with > any of my Red Hat boxes. > > HTH,