Ron Joffe wrote:
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
toss in a pcmcia nic and see if the problem persists, make sure you're not chasing the wrong problem.
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