Fyi, the distribution should have no effect on the ethernet card.
On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, Yoink! wrote:
> I have a Red Hat linux 6.0 box (Celeron 433Mhz, not overclocked!, with
> 196M RAM and a IBM 6.4G IDE, on a Abit ZM6) on a remote network. Every 5
> or so days, it used to lose eth0 (3c509) and no packets would come in or
> out, despite the fact that the box was still up. Rebooting fixes the
> problem, Rebooting every 3 or so days kept the problem from occuring at
> all.
>
> I upgraded to the 6.1 Kernel (no other rpms) to find that it would still
> happen, only now about every 12 days.
>
> It just happened again. I can't get to the box till tommorow, but I was
> wondering what info I need collect and pass on to you guys to diagnose the
> cause of this problem.
>
> Since the box doesn't crash, there is no oops.
>
> All of the boxes contents are brand new, but I don't have an identical NIC
> one to swap it out with. None of the other boxes on that hub are having
> this problem.
>
> Let me know how to proceed please...
>
>
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