In an effort to clean up my son's partitions on his Mandrake 8.0
installation. We decided the path of least resistance was a re-install. Since
he had no real data that he was concerned about losing, we jumped right in.
We did a fairly complete install as a workstation with little or no servers
installed.
We now have what seems to be a major networking issue that's got me beat.
The problems started because we were unable to get internet access (well, we
were able to call up one website, but that was it). I began to troubleshoot,
starting with pinging the nodes on the network (my downstairs PC and the
gateway/router).
I could not ping my downstairs PC, and I'd get about 80-90% loss on pinging
the gateway. When I ping'd the DNS servers, I got 98% packet loss.
He's got an Etherlink NIC using the tulip module. I rmmod'd tulip, then
insmod'd it. The module loaded, but there was a complaint about an IRQ
conflict (IRQ 11). I tried enabling/disabling Plug&play in the BIOS, to no
avail. I then swapped the card for a 3Com 3C595 I had in the basement. I
still got the IRQ conflict, though. I then moved the card into another PCI
slot and managed to rid myself of the IRQ conflict.
Unfortunately, it hasn't changed the goings on of the network. I still have
the dropped packet problem.
I swapped network cables, and the problem persists. I CAN ping his network
card from my PC without any packet loss, so I'm guessing that there's some
sort of config issue on his PC, but damned if I know what it is.
This has all the earmarks of a routing table issue, but the routing table is
correct. I HAVE deleted and reinstated the default route (route del default;
route add default gw 192.168.1.254 metric 1). With no change.
What am I missing? What else could be causing this, if it's not a route
issue?
If I can't get this resolved anytime soon, I'm just gonna install Caldera on
the box, so at least I'll be working with a distro that I have half a clue
with...
Regards.
Tim
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