On Friday 13 May 2005 10:50, Jason Tower wrote: > 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. > > jason
Jason, I didn't have a PCMCIA nic handy, but I did have a USB based one. The USB nic worked perfectly. 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
