dhcp okay, but no http

[Philip Rowlands]

On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, seph wrote:

>The precision machines, with their onboard NICs fail when talking to
>netgear equipment. However, the failure is not what I'd expect for
>network incompatability. They get dhcp, they ping. They claim http
>fails, but they send no packets, and drop into manual mode. From manual
>mode, http works fine.

What is the NIC hardware in the Precision? Does its module take extended
debug flags which can be passed on the kernel command line?  If so, you
may be able to see something in the output of dmesg, after getting far
enough to use the shell on Alt+F2.


Cheers,
Phil