NIC (eth0) Problems Since Moving from RHL9 to FC1
Mike Watson
mikew at crucis.net
Sat Jan 24 23:22:58 UTC 2004
Curt Stauffer wrote:
> 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.
>
>
>
You should be able to turn off the on-board NIC in you BIOS config. Then
buy and install a PCI NIC of your choice. The current Netgear 10-100 NICS
are tulip based and should be recognized by kudzu on first boot.
Mike W
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