Don Woodward wrote:
On Sat, 2004-12-18 at 18:43, Danesh Daroui wrote:
Hi all,
I am a FC3 user. I have connected a broadband internet CAT5 cable (8 Mbit/1 Mbit) to this system. Before FC3, I was using Windows XP and the speed was fine, but when I installed FC3, the speed got low dramatically ! The only change I have made is that I used a long cable (Maybe 8 m or more) to connect that system to internet. Can it be a reason that could increase the error rate ? I use a wireless LAN and can use a USB wireless adapter but I am not sure if FC3 is compatible with wireless networks or not, however it says it does. Have anyone any suggestions or experience about this problem ?
Your 8m cable length is not an issue - is this a pre-made cable or one you made?
Sounds like you might have a duplex mismatch - you can use "ifconfig -a" and look for excessive errors - if you are connecting to a switch you should see none - if you are using a hub a few errors are OK.
Check the speed on the Fedora end using "dmesg | grep eth0" to see it it's 10-half, 10-full, 100-half or 100-full duplex - make sure your switch is the same.
Thnaks for the info: results of grep eth0:
dmesg | grep eth0 divert: allocating divert_blk for eth0 eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01043:80a7 bound to 0000:00:05.0
thats it? Obviously something up here but what? JonVO
