Anthony Messina wrote: > 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. > > sorry, here's the link to my previous post this month: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2006-April/msg04485.html -- 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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