SuSE 9.1 - can't communicate with router

I have spent 3 days on this box, I am in need of some advice. Here is
what I've got and tried so far...

Installed SuSE 9.1 and try to connect to router. I was not able to get
the nics to get DHCP, but I am able set a static IP address on it. I
can ping within the box. This box used to be RH9 and used the same
Netmask, IP and Boardcast, nothing work. I also used Yast to set it up
but it dosn't work either. I cannot ping to the router (and of course,
not outside world).

I've checked /etc/resolv.conf have DNS address in it,
I've checked /etc/sysconfig/network/ethxxxx file have all the correct
network configuration.
I know the nics are good, I still have my old RH9 in aother drive in
case something like this happen, I put the old drive in and got the up
and running again, so I know the HW are good.

Here is the behavior I got when I do ping,

The light on the router blink and the light on the eth0 blink too, but
I get Desitination unreachable.

I think this is some setting that I'm not putting in but where? please
adivse.

>netstat -r
Destination /Gateway /Genmask /Flag /IFace
192.168.0.0 / * /255.255.255.0/U/eth0
link-local / * /255.255.0.0 / U/ eth0
loopback / * /255.0.0.0 / U / lo
default / 192.168.0.2 / 0.0.0.0/UG/ eth0

Kernal 2.6.4-52-smp

Nics tried so far
DLink DFE-530TX+
AON 3xx Realtek chip
LinkSys LNE100TX

One more thing, when I run ifconfig. I've realized that there are many
RX errors and drops and Tx errors and showing no 0 bit transmission.

On 4 Feb 2005 20:55:31 -0800, saidev <saidev@gmail.com> wrote:
> One more thing, when I run ifconfig. I've realized that there are many
> RX errors and drops and Tx errors and showing no 0 bit transmission.

Are you using the correct module for your network card (nic). Check boot
messages or /var/log/messages to see if there are any problems bringing it
up. And post the nic related part of 'lspci -v'.

here are some strange message from

/var/log/messages

kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timeout
eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc690d5, CSR12 000000000,
resetting...
kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timeout
eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc69c1d7, CSR12 000000000,
resetting...
kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timeout
eth0: Transmit timed out, status fc69c1d7, CSR12 000000000,
resetting...

and it just repeat for about 15 more times, I think these message were
from when I do the ping command

>lspci -v
0000:00:09.0 Ethernet controller : Linksys Network Everywhere Fast
Ethernet 10/100 model NC100 (rev 11)
Subsystem: Linksys: Unknown device 0574
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 10
I/O ports at d000
Memory at eb0000000 (32-bit, non-prefectchable) [size=1K]
Capabilities: [c0] Power Management version 2

In my /etc/sysconfig/hardware/hwcfg-bus-pci-0000:00:09.0 file contains
MODULE='tulip'
MODULE_OPTION=''
STARTMODE='auto'

I found the solution, the problem was not any of the NICs nor the
network configurations. It was my ACPI taking an IRQ of the NIC. I've
used this in grub.conf to fix the problem.

apm=off, acpi=off, noapic