Hi all, On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:50 PM, Shlomi Fish <shlo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Shimi, > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:28 PM, shimi <linux...@shimi.net> wrote: >> >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 1:24 PM, shimi <linux...@shimi.net> wrote: >>> >>> My bet is one of those: >>> * bad Ethernet cable between one of the computers and the router/switch >>> (you can verify by pinging the router from each one of the computers) >>> * bad switch / home router (common ones where I personally encountered >>> this: Edimax & TP-Link of any model...) >>> >> >> Oh and, of course, more rare, but should be noted too: bad NIC on the >> computer that was connected with Ethernet in the first place (because you >> already tried a different NIC on the laptop when you switched from WiFi to >> Ethernet)... >> > > Well, the pings from the laptop to the router are fine, but those from > the desktop machine to the router have many dropped packets. I tried > to switch the Ethernet cable of the desktop machine to the one that is > successfully used by the laptop, but there are still dropped packets > there. Maybe there's a bad NIC on the desktop machine. > > Thanks for all your help. >
OK, I googled my card and "dropped packets" and got here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=713315 They suggest using the external driver from the e1000 project on SourceForge.net . I'll try that. Regards, -- Shlomi Fish > Regards, > > -- Shlomi Fish > > -- > ------------------------------------------ > Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ > > Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done > that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much. > -- ------------------------------------------ Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ Electrical Engineering studies. In the Technion. Been there. Done that. Forgot a lot. Remember too much. _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
