On 11 Jun 2008, at 11:06, Nick Murtagh wrote:
> Daniel McInerney wrote:
>> I added two gigs of ram to a workstation running debian lenny
>> and when I booted the machine I had no network connectivity.
>> ifconfig returned a similar IP address: 169.254.*.* and the following
>> is now in syslog:
>> Adding RAM shouldn't break your network - any chance there was
> a new kernel installed via updates that become active when you
> rebooted?
IIRC the OP said that when he removes the RAM the NIC works and when
he puts the RAM back, the NIC doesn't work - I'm hoping he didn't
leave out a minor detail :-) like a change of kernel in the meantime.
It does sound odd, and the only thing I can think of is some kind of
dubious hardware which maps itself into a high memory memory address,
and then dies roaring when there's actual memory at that memory
address. Exactly what kind of NIC is the failing one anyway?
Niall
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