[ILUG] lost link beat

[Albert White - SUN Ireland]

Hi All,

I'm trying to get a linux laptop up on the network for a friend in work and 
running into a bit of a problem.

The pcmcia card appears to come up ok and cardmgr starts. This loads the 
3c589_cs module, and sets its static IP. when I try pinging another machine on 
the network TX packets are recorded on both the eth0 and lo interfaces but no 
RX packets appear on the eth0. netstat -rn does instruct it to use eth0 for 
the IP address. The ping fails of course with destination host unreachable, 
and no lights even appear on the pcmcia connector (well I guess they should 
flash when there is activity right? :)  )

The only error I can find is in the messages, right after the messages about 
the PCMCIA card coming up:
eth0: lost link beat

Kernel is 2.2.14-5.0, Redhat 6.2, card is a 3c589, Laptop is an IBM ThinkPad 
600

Anyone seen anything like this before?

Cheers,
~Al