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

Richard Crawford rscrawford at mossroot.com
Tue Dec 21 02:41:36 UTC 2004


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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