At 08:35 PM 5/31/2006 -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
Tom Peters wrote:
At 03:42 PM 5/31/2006 -0700, Chris Carlen wrote:
Current NIC is (from dmesg) 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html 0000:00:0e.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B-FX Cyclone 100baseFx at 0xb000. Vers LK1.1.19 0000:00:0e.0: Media override to transceiver type 5 (100baseFX). I had to add an option to get it to work with the fibers. I think we have SC connectors. I am having other problems, and would like to try a different NIC. Any good recommendations for a SC connector 100baseFX NIC? Something wrong with the current one? I'm using that driver myself, except with a 3C905B-TX.
Well my problem is very strange. I can't print to a new Ricoh CL7200 printer. It appears to be networking related, as if I try to ftp a print job to it, the transfer stalls. FTPing the same job to it from another machine (Win2k) on the same subnet works Ok. But the networking on this Linux box in all other respects seems fine. Furthermore, if I take the NIC from the Win2k machine, and put it in the Linux machine, then the Linux machine can also print fine.
I will thus be interested in finding an alternative 100baseFX NIC to try.
I am also not sure if there is something screwey about the printer's networking. But I at least must get the ability to print, and since everyone else can print to it (the Windows world) I am unfortunately stuck with having to focus suspicions on the Linux box and/or its hardware.
I have had difficulties with the NIC initially having to use an option to force it to use the fiber transceiver. Autonegotiate doesn't work. Dunno if this is the hub's fault or not. Hopefully I will get support from a Linux tech. soon. But usually they know only a tiny fraction of what I already know, and I wind up tutoring them.
Doesn't sound much like the NIC is at fault. Can the Linux machine access other resources on this network? If it can hit some and not others, its subnet mask might be set wrong. If you can't ping any other box on the network, the address might be wrong and you might be on a different subnet. Can you ping the printer's IP address? Can other machines ping you? Run ifconfig at the command line and capture the results for us. -T [Philosophy] There is nothing that somebody, somewhere, will not consider immoral. --Jan.Six@uku.fi --... ...-- -.. . -. ----. --.- --.- -... tpeters@nospam.mixcom.com (remove "nospam") N9QQB (amateur radio) "HEY YOU" (loud shouting) WEB ADDRESS http//www.mixweb.com/tpeters 43° 7' 17.2" N by 88° 6' 28.9" W, Elevation 815', Grid Square EN53wc WAN/LAN/Telcom Analyst, Tech Writer, MCP, CCNA, Registered Linux User 385531 -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com