Perl kills NE2000: needs power-cycle or Microsoft to fix!?

Tim Smith (tzs@tzs.net)
Sat, 12 Dec 1998 20:52:28 -0800 (PST)

OK, here's an odd one. Twice now, when I've used "perl -MCPAN -e shell" to
update or install perl modules, my ethernet has died. By "died" I mean nothing
I do causes packets to go out, and incoming packets are ignored. Here's the
really odd part: a warm reboot does not fix it. Power cycling the machine
fixes it, as does booting to Windows NT.

I'm running a fairly stock 2.0.34 kernel and my ethernet card is an
NE2000 clone. I'm running as root when I run "perl -MCPAN -e shell".

Any suggestions on what I should do? The following possibilities come to
mind:

1. Get the latest NE2000 driver and see if that helps.

2. Upgrade to 2.0.36 and see if that helps.

3. Grab a 2.1.x kernel and give that a try.

My non-kernel setup is a fairly stock Red Hat 5.1, with most of the non-kernel
updates from Red Hat applied.

--Tim Smith

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