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Re[6]: [cobalt-users] Network Card For OS Restore
- Subject: Re[6]: [cobalt-users] Network Card For OS Restore
- From: Gerald Waugh <gwaugh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Nov 7 10:06:01 2002
- List-id: Mailing list for users to share thoughts on Sun Cobalt products. <cobalt-users.list.cobalt.com>
On Thu, 7 Nov 2002, COMPUTICA wrote:
> Yes, the Tx/Rx light flashes every once in awhile....
>
> So, if I don't get the message from the OS Restore CD that no valid
> network card is available, my card will work?
>
> So maybe I should just not be lazy and go make another crossover cable
> and use that???
>
> Or can the network card still be an issue??
>
I would bet on the NIC.
Try a different one.
You know, sometimes it's not the actual hardware but the driver,
the Cobalt cd is using a very old version of Debian, and it probably
has a driver that will only work with particular cards
Gerald
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