NIC (eth0) Problems Since Moving from RHL9 to FC1

Curt Stauffer curt02 at comcast.net
Sat Jan 24 18:06:53 UTC 2004


Ethernet card is apparently fried, I guess it was just warning me that it
was about to die big-time...  Problem is this is a Dell 2350 with the
BCM4401 on the motherboard.  Theoretically shouldn't I be able to buy
another card and just use it?

Thanks again for the suggestions, they were spot on!
-Curt Stauffer

--On Friday, January 23, 2004 12:22 PM +1000 Scott Burns
<scott at mirrabooka.com> wrote:

> Has the physical cable changed, or any hardware changed in any way?  If
> the cable has changed, is it a cat5e?
> 
> The standard response is to slow the connection down to 10mbps half
> duplex and retest.  Then increase to 100mbps half duplex and retest.
> Then go to 100mbps full duplex and retest.  You could stop in at 10mbps
> full duplex on the way.
> 
> If even 10mbps half duplex has problems, let us know.





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