I want to thank brokenhut for helpful suggestions on my network card problems. They are all fixed now. Somehow I have mixed up the two Ethernet cards ever since the machine was bought over three years ago (thankfully they're not two children ;). I took the external card (which turned out to be the VIA Rhine) out of the PCI slot and plugged it in ( Read more... )

I have two Ethernet cards on my home computer: one is integrated and the other is a PCI card. The problem is figuring out which is which. Which is the RTL8139 card? Which is the one with the VIA Rhine chip? I'm too lazy to open the case so I'm not sure. And which is eth0 and which is eth1? It seems to be constantly changing. And strangely, I ( Read more... )