[WBEL-users] Very slow network

[Mickael Maddison]

Hello James,
A couple of years ago we had moved away from using any 3com 3c905x cards in our RedHat machines as we've had many instances of this problem.  I've read that something about either replacing the 3com driver or tweaking the settings to bypass the problem, but haven't tried it.  We wanted the drivers to work 'out-of-the-box' and fortunately we have Intel cards aplenty. 

So if you need to use the 3com cards, 
Thursday, June 17, 2004, 11:40:11 AM, you wrote:

JK> Just installed WBEL on a test box (Athlon 850MHz, 1GB RAM).

JK> I had (bad) X problems with the Riva TNT2 card, but swapped it out for
JK> an old ATI Rage 3D. Works now.

JK> It has a 3COM 905B NIC, but it's vvveeerrryyy ssslllooowww. scp is
JK> producting about 10kb/S over a 100MB cable to the hub to my workstation
JK> (dual Athlon 2400). It appears that the data is coming in small bursts.

JK> If I reboot using a Knoppix CD I get the expected multi-megabit/S 
JK> transfer rate, so the hardware is fine.

JK> I've tried removing and re-adding eth0, with and without firewall enabled.

JK> I've not seen this kind of problem before any ideas?

JK> thx!

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 Mickael                            mailto:mike@kamloopsbc.com