Curt Stauffer wrote:
Has the physical cable changed, or any hardware changed in any way? If the cable has changed, is it a cat5e?I recently moved from RHL9 to Fedora Core 1. When using RHL9 I looked around and found a driver for the onboard NIC (bcm4400.o) and didn't have any problems with my connection (Cable modem -> D-Link Gateway -> RHL9 box). I moved to FC1 and used the _b44_ driver. The internet response time was really slow so I checked the NIC stats (ifconfig eth0) and saw lots of RX errors and frame errors. I downloaded and installed the latest bcm4400 driver (v3.0.7) from Broadcom - same results. I enabled flow control on both RX and TX just to see if that made any difference. Not much. I'm kind of at a loss at this point as to what to try next. I even tried a Knoppix CD but couldn't get the configuration right for eth0 so I gave up on that. Any ideas would be really appreciated!
The standard response is to slow the connection down to 10mbps half duplex and retest. Then increase to 100mbps half duplex and retest. Then go to 100mbps full duplex and retest. You could stop in at 10mbps full duplex on the way.
If even 10mbps half duplex has problems, let us know.
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