That's odd. I've used the RL8029 on a number of machines and had no
problems with it. I suspect either a misconfigured card, or more
likely a speed auto-negotiation breakdown between the card and the
switch (you were using a switch, weren't you?). There are utilities
available on the 'net which allow you to force the card into 100BaseTx
mode (or even 10BaseT if you're a masochist) and once you use those,
the cards shines.
Regards,
-- Raju
>>>>> "Jiju" == Jiju Thomas Mathew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jiju> today, i switched from ISA-ne2k to rl8029 pci after
Jiju> installation of card and editing of the conf.modules, i gave
Jiju> init 3, system started and detected the card, imediately i
Jiju> smelt something foul -- The card hw address was 5a5a5a5a5a5a
Jiju> this i did not take serious as the card was initialised and
Jiju> it was working from my point, ie ping to another machine
Jiju> responded well then lo-and-behold everything changed, ping -
Jiju> works to and fro telnet - from another machine, no response
Jiju> (times out) pop3 - from another machine, no response
Jiju> iptraf with lan monitor shows tcp incoming bytes on the card
Jiju> but no outgoing bytes were recorded.
Jiju> my diskless clients were getting the DHCP leases and tftp
Jiju> boot image also, but no telnet access
Jiju> infact the card is not supporting TCP/IP but tried it in
Jiju> Win95 and tested with NetBUEI it works fine.
Jiju> I asked a replacement and got one this was showing hardware
Jiju> id 5254AB---- and I tested -- everything okay.
Jiju> well a secure network card which doesnot permit network
Jiju> access ? phew!
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Raju Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/
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