Re: Not to whine, but [more details on NIC problem]

From: Richard Crawford (rscrawford_at_mossroot.com)
Date: 12/21/04

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Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2004 18:41:36 -0800

    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. 

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