On Mon, 2004-12-20 at 17:16, James Wilkinson wrote: > This message? > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg05433.html > > You got a response in > http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-December/msg05515.html > which implicitly asked a supplementary question: what sort of network > card? > > Incidentally, it looks as though your followup message was sent less > than twenty-four hours after the first one. In my experience, you need > to wait four or five days at least for everyone to have a chance to > catch up on the mailing list and try to answer your questions. My apologies. Chalk it up to a really bad day at work. :-P I missed William's response to my e-mail. Bill: I, too, have never encountered a problem like this in the dozen or so RH, Debian, or SuSE installations I've done. The same problem did show up when I installed the SMP version of the 2.6 kernel with a SuSE 9.2 installation, which makes me think that the problem might be with the 2.6 kernel and not with Fedora Core. William and Jim: It is indeed a 3com card. More specifically, 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado] (rev 74). The bug file that William pointed to looks familiar, but I have never encountered this problem before under any other kernel; I even had the SMP version of a 2.4 kernel running before without difficulties. The computer can see the network through the card, and I can ping other computers in my network and on the Internet, but there is significant packet loss -- between 36% and 94%. The computer is a dual-processor PIII with 512MB RAM. It's not a laptop computer. I'm running FC2, with the 2.6.9-1.6_FC2 kernel. The problem occurs when I try to run the SMP version of the same kernel. William's response gave me pause for thought. I do have a spare Belkin NIC card lying around; I'll swap the 3Com out for that and see if that works. Again: Thanks to all who responded, and my apologies to the same as well. -- Richard S. Crawford / http://www.mossroot.com AIM: Buffalo2K / ICQ: 11646404 / Y!: rscrawford ""We live as though the world were how it should be, to show it what it can be." --"Angel", Season 4 ep. 1
