[plug] Network Card Problems

[Weirdo]

This hasn't fixed the problem.
The card works fine under WinXP, I will test it with the latest knoppix cd 
when i get the chance
Tim
At 07:55 PM 13/07/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>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.
>
>--
>  Bernard Blackham
>  Bernard at blackham dot com dot au

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