Tim <ignored_mailbox@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-05 at 11:21 -0600, David G. Miller wrote:
I guess next thing is to try a different NIC in the workstation and
see if its the NIC. The NICs were surplussed to me from where I used
to work so I can't complain too much if I have trouble with them.
They probably wouldn't have gotten rid of them unless there was a
reason.
Even "good" ones don't always work well for someone else. They might
work well with Windows drivers, but not Linux, or vice versa.
I have an issue with one of mine that way. On a dual-boot box, it's
rather painful in one direction between Windows and Linux. But if I
reboot that box to Linux, it works fine between itself and another Linux
box. Go figure...
(Yes, I'd checked through the duplex options in both OSs.)
Tried a different 3c2000-t (box was still shrink wrapped) and behavior
was the same. Not sure when the skge package replaced sk98lin in FC4
but it looks like the version of the kernel on the original install cd
still had sk98lin. I just did a --oldpackage install of that kernel so
I'll see what happens when this box has sk98lin as the driver. I'll
post the result.
I've always considered networking somewhat of a "black art" since the
time in the late '80s when two adjacent HP workstations on my project
decided to stop talking to each other and we fixed the problem by
replacing the 3 ft cable between them with a 6 ft cable. This was back
in the coax days.
BTW, gigabit uses all four wire pairs in the cable.
Yep, as I said, "two pairs in each direction" (that's four pairs in one
cable).
Oops. Sorry. I've had way too much advice about not needing all four
pairs.
Cheers,
Dave
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