On Tuesday 16 November 2004 8:25 pm, Brian Jackson wrote:
On Tuesday 16 November 2004 00:21, Johan Nielsen wrote:
Plz start a seperate thread for this issue.
Umm, I did start a separate thread.
You thought you did, but actually you started composing your email by replying to a random mail on another topic and then clearing out the Subject and body, thinking that is sufficient. If you do this, many people will know that this is what you have done, because for their email client it will appear in the thread you randomly chose to reply to. People will tell you that you have hijacked a thread, but never actually explain how they know or why this is bad. There, I have said too much already.
And do provide info on you motherboard / chipset / NIC.
Here's the NIC card I was using.
11: PCI 0b.0: 0200 Ethernet controller [Created at pci.243] Unique ID: gZD2.IQxIdIhhuH7 SysFS ID: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0b.0 SysFS BusID: 0000:00:0b.0 Hardware Class: network Model: "Realtek RT8139" Vendor: pci 0x10ec "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd." Device: pci 0x8139 "RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+" SubVendor: pci 0x10ec "Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd." SubDevice: pci 0x8139 "RT8139" Revision: 0x10 Driver: "8139too" I/O Ports: 0xb800-0xb8ff (rw) Memory Range: 0xf2800000-0xf28000ff (rw,non-prefetchable) IRQ: 11 (8515285 events) HW Address: 00:40:f4:6e:dc:d3 Driver Info #0: Driver Status: 8139too is active Driver Activation Cmd: "modprobe 8139too" Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown
The Realtek is based on an early ethernet chipset and leans heavily on the driver to work. More modern cards do more in HW.
I switched to the onboard NIC and things were great after that. I was using the PCI network card because that's the way the system was setup by the previous admin, so I assumed there was a reason for not using the onboard card.
Funny thing is that I have the Realtek card in another system (suse 8.2) and it works like a champ. Hmm... oh well.
Yes, I have an ISA Realtek, on the link to my ADSL router. It works well, though a 3c905 worked better, but not enough to change back Vince