Nvidia network troubles

[dragoran]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

>tir, 22.03.2005 kl. 12.00 skrev Cimmo:
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>>ifconfig attached.
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>>PLEASE HELP!
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>>eth0	  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:11:09:C8:ED:04
>>          inet addr:192.168.1.4  Bcast:192.168.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
>>          inet6 addr: fe80::211:9ff:fec8:ed04/64 Scope:Link
>>          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>>          RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>          TX packets:34 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>>          RX bytes:1652 (1.6 KiB)  TX bytes:3418 (3.3 KiB)
>>          Interrupt:193 Base address:0x9000
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>>lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
>>          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
>>          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
>>          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
>>          RX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>          TX packets:49 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>>          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>>          RX bytes:3592 (3.5 KiB)  TX bytes:3592 (3.5 KiB)
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>>From what i can tell, your machine *has* network connectivety working -
>you do get an ip, you do get a dns, and you are able to ping remote
>adresses, get data from them, and get info from your router's dns cache.
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>Hmm... you are saying you are using nvidia's proprietary network driver
>(WTF?!?), and their proprietary display driver (understandable). That
>means you have a tainted kernel - and that most kernel guys will refuse
>to help you, as they don't have access to the full sourcecode.
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>If you use the fedora shipped network driver (forcedeth?) - what happens
>then? Try that driver, and use the built-in "nv" driver (yes, i know it
>doesn't give any 3D), and if it doesn't work still, you have a kernel
>bug (which should be reported at RH bugzilla). Or you could try to talk
>nvidia's engineers into finding out what went wrong with *their* driver
>(means their trouble).
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>It could be that:
>- firefox is borked (try some other client such as links to rule out
>this)
>- your network driver is borked, so it will fail on larger amounts of
>data (would explain why ping, dig, and the *start* of pages in firefox
>work, but not complete webpages etc.). Try to download something big (a
>fedora ISO?) with wget, and see what happens. Do it from a *real*
>console, sou you can see any error messages flying past.
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>And for god's sake: Use a more descriptive subject next time!!!
>
>Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
>ps. i am going to be away for the rest of the week, so happy bughunting!
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doubt that the nvidia display driver has something to do with this... 
try disabling ipv6