Ok people, do not use the drivers from scyld - ONLY use the modified ones in the 2.4 kernels. I say this because having compiled and installed the ones from scyld I've had many lockups and the network just seems to die - you can still ping your own network card, but nothing else is available. Lowering the port and re-raising it doesn't help either. Thus I've gone back to the ones in the kernel - they may not be quite as fast but at least they don't completely die on me! Mainly FYI I guess. Matthew On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:12:43PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > Well, that's all gone through and worked - not quite as simple as I > thought, but I got there. Network performance seems a little faster > than before but still a little slow compared with what I thought > would have been possible with a 100TX crossover network. Must be > a limitation of the cheap cards. > > Thanks for your help. > > Matthew > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:56:31PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > Yes, it's a 2.4.9 kernel on both machines with the included natsemi > > driver. > > > > dmesg reports much the same for both machines: > > > > eth0: link is back. Enabling watchdog. > > eth0: Setting full-duplex based on negotiated link capability. > > eth0: Link changed: Autonegotiation advertising 05e1 partner 0000. > > eth0: no link. Disabling watchdog. > > eth0: Link changed: Autonegotiation advertising 05e1 partner 45e1. > > eth0: link is back. Enabling watchdog. > > > > > > I'll replace the driver with the one from scyld.com - it's just a matter > > of physically over writing /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/natsemi.c with the > > new one right? > > > > Thanks, > > > > Matthew > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 01:41:59PM -0400, Noah Meyerhans wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 06:36:05PM +0100, Matthew Sackman wrote: > > > > I've just set up a 100TX network with 2 computer both running debian. > > > > Netgear FA311 cards and a single cross-over cable. > > > > > > What version of the kernel are you running? If it's 2.4, are you > > > running the natsemi driver included with the kernel, or did you download > > > it from scyld.com? If you're running the version that came with the > > > kernel, try replacing it with the one from > > > http://www.scyld.com/network/netsemi.html. The one in the kernel is > > > based on that driver, but has been modified. You may have more success > > > with the original. > > > > > > Also, use dmesg and see if anything is being logged by the kernel > > > relating to these issues. I've seen some IRQ problems with the > > > natsemi-based cards. > > > > > > noah > > > > > > -- > > > _______________________________________________________ > > > | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ > > > | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Matthew Sackman > > Nottingham, > > ENGLAND > > > > Using Debian/GNU Linux > > Enjoying computing > > > > It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' > > So I installed Linux. > > > > -- > > Matthew Sackman > Nottingham, > ENGLAND > > Using Debian/GNU Linux > Enjoying computing > > It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' > So I installed Linux. -- Matthew Sackman Nottingham, ENGLAND Using Debian/GNU Linux Enjoying computing It said 'Required Windows XP or better.' So I installed Linux.
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