On Mon 2006-02-27 08:26:37, Bob Chiodini <rchiodin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-27 at 08:18 -0500, William
W. Austin wrote:
(SNIP)
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;
(SNIP)
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?
Sorry - I meant to include it and left this one out: (note that when I
restart the network the 1 GB card restarts as a 100 MB, not 1GB,
card...), Almosting nothing really - here's the only entry from the
logs (and this set of 3 occurs only ONCE over several days...):
Feb 27 00:47:38 dsl027-161-055 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link
\is not ready
...
Feb 27 00:51:16 dsl027-161-055 kernel: e1000: eth0:
\e1000_watchdog_task: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
Feb 27 00:51:17 dsl027-161-055 kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0:
link becomes ready
Again, this one has me stumped (I've been running linux boxen at home
and at the office for many years and this is a new one to me...)
Thanks.
--
william w. austin waustin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
"life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..."
