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[spchen at juno.com]

Hi,

Thanks for response my email. I am sorry that I did not post enough
infomation for my question. Please see the following:

The Firewall is off 

The network card appears to have been detected (3c900), but it would not
transmit(The ping command fails).

ifconfig output related to eth0 is the following:
	eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
	          inet addr:192.168.xxx.xxx  Bcast:192.168.xxx.xxx  Mask:255.255.255.0
	          inet6 addr: xxxx::xxx:xxx:xxxx:xxx/xx Scope:Link
        	  UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
	          RX packets:1 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
        	  TX packets:0 errors:15 dropped:0 overruns:17 carrier:17
	          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
        	  RX bytes:21823 (21.3 Kb)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
        	  Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000
 
The line in /etc/modprobe.conf for eth0 is the following:
	alias eth0 3c59x

I invoked "/sbin/lspci" and got the following info related to eth0:
	00:09.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c900 10Mbps Combo [Boomerang]

I invoked "grep -i eth0 /var/log/messages" and got the following info related to eth0:
		:
		:
	/var/log/messages:Sep 14 08:59:06 xxxxx kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
	/var/log/messages:Sep 14 08:59:06 xxxxx kernel: eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
	/var/log/messages:Sep 14 08:59:06 xxxxx kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 90.
		:
		:

I invoked "dmesg | grep -i eth0" and got the following info related to eth0:
		:
		:
	NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out
	eth0: transmit timed out, tx_status 00 status e000.
	eth0: Resetting the Tx ring pointer.
	eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 90.
		:
		:

Shi-Ping Chen