Summary: (nearly) no network-connectivity

From: B. Boersch-Pulm <Birgitt.Boersch-Pulm_at_Uni-Koeln.DE>
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 15:00:50 +0100

hallo,

for the first time, there were no answers to my question.


It was a hardware problem, I changed the network-card and all things seem
to be fine



Birgitt Boersch-Pulm


My original question :

On Nov 20, 0:34, B. Boersch-Pulm wrote:
> Subject: (nearly) no network-connectivity
> Hallo,
>
> once again a calling for help.
> My workstation : AlphaStation 200/166 DU 4.0B lost nearly all
network-connectivity
> It isnīt completly an island, but very often the connection is
interrupted with
> time out. Otherwise itīs during minutes to connect.
> I tried to reboot the machine (it is possible, because it`s my personal
workstation)
> For the first time it ends with a panic dump during startup :
> where to start afs, there is the message :
>
> alpha PC machine check type 0x670
> machine check abort
> retry =0x0
> mchk_code =0x92
> paltemp[1] =0x270b
> paltemp[2] =
> .
> .
> .
> and so on
>
> after the core dump the machine restarts with single user mode
>
> the message file says :
>
> machine check- hardware error
>
> after some tries in single user the machine starts again in multi-user,
> but isnīt usable :
> nearly ten tries for the CDE-login
> no connection to the machine from other machines in the network.
>
> but after minutes connections from this machine to the network,
> interrupted with timeout.
>
> Once again, I donīt know what I could do.
>
> It seems to be a hardware error.
> is there a possibility to check the network interface with console
commands ?
>
> or in single user mode ?
>
> thanks for every idea
>
> Birgitt Boersch-Pulm
>
>
>-- End of excerpt from B. Boersch-Pulm
Received on Fri Nov 20 1998 - 14:03:05 NZDT

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