"Dave C." wrote:
>
> > > Check the bus-mastering stuff. Is it working?
>
> This depends on the particular driver.
>
> > > Check that you're not sharing the irq of the card with another device.
>
> cat /proc/interrupts and /proc/pci should give you this information. IRQs
> are decided by the PNP bios on power-on. The bios settings usually allow you
> to assign an irq to a given pci slot.
Just checked /proc/interrupts and both LAN cards are fine and dandy with
their own irq.
>
> > > Try to adjust the full-half duplex settings (you can only support full
> > > duplex on a switch that supports it too).
>
> Again this depends on the driver. Look at it's parameters.
Sorry for being a bit dumb but how do I do this? I've searched the doc
for 'ifconfig' and also looked though linuxconf. It can't be that hard
to enable full-duplex for a card, can it?! I had a hard time searching
goggle and linuxdocs for anything.
>
> Dave.
Cheers for being so helpful about this [OT ish] subject!
Ben