Dlink Gigabit and KDE

[wtmann]

I just installed Kubuntu as an internal server for a school (substituting a previous Fedora installation) and am having problems with the network card. I'm using a D-Link DGE-530T 10/100/1000 Gigabit card and am having problems with the card not transmitting. In syslog I get a series of "Transmit timeouts" and I can ping anything or go anywhere.

Now here's the funny part: I rebooted in single user mode to do some other stuff and lo and behold the card was functioning properly. I then started each service that comes up in runlevel 2 manually to see when the card stopped working: all services started correctly and the card continued to function properly until I started KDM! Once the graphical interface started the network card no longer transmitted data!

Does anyone have an idea of what KDM/KDE does that would cause the network card to not function properly? Thanks for any help.

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William

P.S. Now I have the server working but the teachers would like the graphical interface on the server so it would be nice to be able to start kdm back up.

[askrieger]

Re: Dlink Gigabit and KDE

Starting in single user mode and then carrying out all the steps in RC2.d is NOT the same as booting into RC2 (you're not root, in a normal boot) so your analysis of the problem as stemming from a glitch in kdm MAY not be correct, although it may be. The only suggestion I can make would be to start KDE with gdm in order to see whether the problem is in fact in kdm, or if it just shows up then because that's the last step in the boot process. Personally, I'm much more inclined to suspect that it's a permission problem of some kind, but I can't imagine what and why it would wait until kdm starts.