[plug] Network Card Problems

[Bernard Blackham]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 04:43:19PM +0800, Weirdo wrote:
> I am having problems with a 3com network card using the 3c59x driver. The 
> problem occurs using the default knoppix-2.4.20-xfs kernel with the driver 
> as a module and for a custom built 2.4.18 kernel with the driver compiled 
> in.
> I can transfer small files if they are by themselves. A large file will die 
> after only about 6000bytes and small files will die after the first 1 or 2 
> have been transferred. Ping works fine. The problem is only there for FTP 
> or SMB i havn't tried scp. A ssh session works fine.

Ooo, ooo, this screams MTU mismatches! Try running:

ifconfig eth0 mtu 576

and see if the problem goes away. (maybe it's 596?)

> Also how do I change the network card settings when its compiled in, I used 
> to pass options to the module but I can't do that when its compiled in.

Normally you would pass them on the kernel command line with LILO
(append="blah") or grub's equivalent. But it doesn't look to me like
the 3c59x driver accepts any options.

Regards,

Bernard.

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