eth0 won't stay up

[hanfamily at earthlink.net]

On Thu, 5 May 2005, Bob Chiodini wrote:

> On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 18:33 -0500, hanfamily at earthlink.net wrote:
> > > snip
> > > With a hub replace full with half. I.E.
> > > 
> > > > > In the meantime, try "ethtool eth0 speed 100 duplex full" and see if
> > > > > that stops it.
> > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > > - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
> > > > > - VitalStream, Inc.                       http://www.vitalstream.com -
> > <snip> >
> > > On a xterm as root;
> > > [root at localhost root]# ethtool -s eth0 speed 100 duplex half
> > > (Mr Stevens forgot the -s)
> > I tried this it still doesn't work right when I ping I lose over
> > half of the packets and it blinks constantly. The nic is part of the
> > motherboard along with a wireless conection of some sort. 
> > It does the same thing on the windows side compaq says it is suppose to 
> > blink on and off constantly! Should I try using a real nic card.
> > If so any suggestions on what to use?
> >                    Thanks
> >                    Linda  
> > 
> 
> Linda,
> 
> I'd try replacing the hub with a switch first.  If it works you'll be
> ahead in throughput.  If it doesn't then replace the NIC and you'll
> still be ahead.
> 
> Also, did you try forcing 100Mb/full duplex?  For grins, try setting
> 10/half, if your hub supports 10Mb.
> 
> Bob...
> 
> 
Thank you to everyone for your help. I settled for the faster
solution. Disabled the nic on the motherboard in bios, installed
a cheap dlink nic and it everything works like a dream.
               Linda