Gordon Gallup wrote: > Sorry, but I should also have said that the ethernet stuff all works > OK when WinXP is run on the box and also when FC4 is run. So, my > conclusion is that the trouble is internal to the box. > > On 4/30/06, Kam Leo <kam.leo@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 4/30/06, Gordon Gallup <gallup.gordon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > Greetings All, >> > Sorry if this appears twice, but an earlier message got lost in >> cyberspace. >> > I have a new e-machine T6420. It is connected to a hub with three >> > other machines and the hub is connected to a Siemans DSL >> > "modem-router". I installed FC5 on the T6420. FC5 is configured to >> > use DHCP at boot time. The behavior is somewhat flakey, but it appears >> > that ssh and sftp (particularly the >> > latter) break networking if I attempt to send too much information. >> > It appears to require a reboot to re-estaablish contact. Fiddling with >> > the inetd.network script does nothing I can detect, although it thinks >> > the network is up. Before the death, pinging works fine all around >> > the machines connected to the hub and also to my office machine across >> > town. In addition, Firefox works for a while, but I can't say yet >> > just how long. >> > Attempting to connect with the kio-slave 'fish' never works. >> > Thanks for any help, GAG just a question... what ethernet card do you have? what driver does it use? it isn't the tg3 driver is it? i'm only asking because i've been having what sounds like a similar intermittent problem with my fc5 using the tg3 driver for a lspci: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01) please ignore this if it's unrelated. -- Anthony Website: http://messinet.com Gallery: http://gallery.messinet.com/main.php?g2_itemId=34 GnuPG Key / Fingerprint: 0xB0014A4E / 8F89 5E72 8DF0 BCF0 10BE 9967 92DC 35DC B001 4A4E Registered Linux User #389089 - Get counted!: http://counter.li.org
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