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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.sprintlink.net!news.us.net!gateway.meem.com!not-for-mail From: iqbal@gateway.meem.com (A. Iqbal) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: BSDI and 3Com ethernet cards Date: 9 May 1996 16:15:30 -0400 Organization: Meem Technologies Lines: 16 Message-ID: <4mtjp2$cto@gateway.meem.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: meem.laurel.us.net We're having a bad experience with 3COM ethernet cards on an ISA bus 486 running BSDI 2.0. It was communicating fine (via an ethernet hub and TCP/IP) with about 10 Macs. Suddenly, the BSDI machine stopped communicating this morning (first symptom: Eudora on the Macs couldn't connect; further analysis: pings to it failed). 1. The BSDI machine doesn't print any errors during boot, 2. The 3COM diagnostics (on a DOS machine) say the card is OK. 3. Other machines can talk to each other on the hub. 4. We've switched ports on the hub. 5. We've switched the hub. The hub has an indicator light for each port, and the port corresponding to the BSDI machine does NOT light up at all when we boot it. Has anyone else seem this kind of a problem?