[sclug] RTL8201 (Sis961) problem

[Pieter Claassen]

I don't understand what happened with my dev machine. I installed debian which I used to develop with for quite a while. The machine saw the network card (driver compiled into the 2.4.18-bf kernel).

I then installed a second hard drive, used debootstrap to install a new copy of the software to that machine, then chrooted to that drive and suddenly I have problems with my network connection.

1. The machine can ping anywhere fine.
2. It can make http connections to any machine on the local subnet, but it  times out on large volumes of data.
3. Can sometimes make connections within the SP network, but mostly times out.
4. I get collisions on the ifconfig (low amount), but sometimes I get drops and sometimes the syslog tells me: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit time out
5. I have the card plugged into an Intel 10 MB hub but no light comes on on the hub when I plug it in (this might always have been). I get a Kernel: eth0: Media Link On 10 mbps half-duplex.
6. It does get a DHCP address (but sometimes not)
7. traceroute starts out keen and well but falters after a number of hops (the other machines on the local sub all gets to the urls no problem)
8. DNS resolves fine.

I have no idea what is going on! Any suggestion on how to start to address the problem?
All help will be appreciated.


Thanks,
Pieter
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