NIC error with Redhat 8.0 on Proliant 3000

[Ismail Aslan]

I have installed RH 8.0 on proliant 3000 single cpu. whenever ı do a soft reset I can not ping any other Pc but when I do a HARD reset then everything works ok. after having porblem I installed 7.2 on the same machine and I do not have any problems.
I changed the NIC (with a same brand and model) and also changed the slot it was in but still had same problem with 8.0.
can anyone hel

[Mark Grant]

Which NIC is it? It sounds to me that the card is not being left in a sane state when the interface is bought down. I would suggest that you try a more recent kernel if it has a later driver revision for your card.

[Gerlach]

I have a similar problem with Proliant DL380 G3, NIC NC7781 and SuSE Linux 8.2.
After soft reset the NIC does not have a MAC address. In BIOS this NIC is shown as not configured. Thats why the server is unreachable in network. After hard reset everything works fine.
Any idea why MAC is lost?

[Jan Ruitenbeek]

Well, I have troubles too.

Installation of RedHat 8.0 is a piece of cake, but RedHat hangs when I reboot.

All goes fine until the "bringing up interface eth0" message and then it hangs.

NIC is a realtek 8139c, processor a Pentium II 450 and the system has 896 MB ram.

BIOS version P09.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

Jan

[Jan Ruitenbeek]

Oops, sorry, I forgotn to mention that my server is a Proliant 3000.