On Friday 13 May 2005 07:48, Scott Chilcote wrote: > Ron Joffe wrote: > > I've got my hands on a new Dell 9300 Inspiron laptop. I'm having some > > strange networking problems. OS is SLES-9. > > > > lspci lists the nic as : > > > > BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) > > > > The module that was loaded (selected automatically) is b44. On boot, eth0 > > is assigned a dhcp address, and the nameservers are properly populated in > > /etc/resolv.conf. So from this I know I am getting some connectivity. > > > > If I try to ping a device on my local subnet, I get: > > > > Destination Host Unreachable for a few hundred times > > > > Then I get very slow ping times(in the 10's of seconds) for a few hundred > > times > > > > Then I get sendmsg: No buffer space available > > > > I have tried using the bcm4400 drivers, and no luck there. What other > > suggestions would you have. > > > > Thanks, > > > > Ron > > Ron: > > Broadcom has downloadable linux drivers on their web site: > > http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php > > If you haven't tried them, it might be worth a go. > > Scott C.
I have tried the broadcom drivers from the above mentioned site. This did not seem to alleviate the problem. I have also tried to force the nice to 10/half and that did not seem to help either. Other suggestions? Thanks, Ron -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
