[SC.LUG] networking for idiots

[Martyn Kinder]

One thought.

I'm not sure how to do this, but you may find the problem is due to (lack
of) negotiation between the cards. I have seen this b4 with windoze boxes
(mind ewes, I think I've seen every problem with windoze boxes as some time
in the last 10 years!). Try forcing the cards to full or half duplex and
either 10 or 100Meg. Make sure they are both the same though...

KM

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-----Original Message-----
From: sc-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto:sc-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk]
On Behalf Of Robert Marshall
Sent: 09 April 2005 13:00
To: South Cheshire GNU/Linux Users
Subject: RE: [SC.LUG] networking for idiots

Andy,

Must be something about the name - I have a book signed by the author for me
with the inscription 'to Robert with kind Roberts'

Thanks for those comments - I probably get my daughter to collect one for me
when she returns to Mcr Univ.

Robert

On Sat, 9 Apr 2005, Andy Roffe wrote:

> Ahem, Sorry, should have been "Robert," It's been one of those weeks.
> 
> -a
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andy Roffe
> Sent: 09 April 2005 11:44
> To: sc at mailman.lug.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [SC.LUG] networking for idiots
> 
> Roberts,
> 
> If it helps, I recall having a similar problem with rtl based NICs in 
> a box running Mandrake. I never found the actual culprit but the fix 
> was using a hub. One of the NIC's involved steadfastly refused to 
> operate with a xover cable although everything looked good. Nic lit up ok.
> 
> I also once had a box that refused to work on the network unless a 
> cable was present at boot. Although again everything seemed perfect, 
> just no traffic.
> 
> I put these down to driver/distro anomalies that are a rare fact of 
> life on Linux. That's not a criticism just an observation and 
> preferable to the sort of network/driver nonsense that happened 
> regularly back in my NT Server days.
> 
> Good luck,
> Andy Roffe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Marshall [mailto:robert at chezmarshall.freeserve.co.uk]
> Sent: 09 April 2005 08:20
> To: South Cheshire GNU/Linux Users
> Subject: Re: [SC.LUG] networking for idiots
> 
> On Fri, 08 Apr 2005, Ewan Leith wrote:
> 
>> One idea might be to just buy a cheap hub i suppose, microdirect do a 
>> 5 port one for £10 or so -
>> http://www.microdirect.co.uk/ProductInfo.aspx?ProductID=5667&GroupID=
>> 22
>> 
> 
> Though I doubt if this (or a router) would fix the problem there'll 
> still be basically the same hardware with that addition, I think there 
> must be some sort of s/w configuration issue that I'm missing that's 
> causing all the errors?
> 
> Robert

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