On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 08:18 -0500, William W. Austin wrote: > I had to replace a disk (the one with all of the home directories on > it) on an FC3 box, and so I bought a new drive (particulars > unimportant). > > To make a long story short, I decided to put FC4 on this box, and so I > installed the new drive and put the root filesystem on it. I still > have the old FC3 root drive and can boot to either for comparison... > > Under FC3, I have no network problems that I can detect; however, under > FC4 there are two distinct (related? no idea) problems which have > eluded me. I have tried looking up both of these in the archives, but > have had no luck (some similar issues, but nothing exactly like either > of these unless I missed them). > > Problem 1: network card goes to sleep. > > This machine has 2 network cards, both on-board. The 1GB card L(Intel > 82540EM) goes to the smartswitch to tolk to the local network, and does > not show any problems. > The other card (nVidia nForce2) is a 100MB card and talks to the DSL > modem. Periodically I cannot connect to the internet at all - or even > ping the DSL modem. This happens irregularly but about 5-10 times/day. > If I reboot back to FC3, the problem does not occur. Network > configurations between the two (FC3/FC4) are as identical as I can make > them. The first few times the problem occurs, sometimes retarting > networking works, but eventually a full sys reboot is the only thing > which works. > > Problem 2: slow local network. > > Under FC3 throughput on the LOCAL network (1GB lan) is very fast. > Under FC4, the best I have seen is ONE transfer of about 1.2 MB/s - and > throughput drops to as low as 50-75KB/s at times. Again, this does not > occur under FC3 but does under FC4. Again the same setup as nearly as > I can make it. No workaround found so far. > > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > Anything relevant in the syslog? Bob...
