>On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Ove Peter wrote:
>
>> > Some networking problems:
>> >I am hooked to my campus ethernet network.
>> >While running windows, I get tremendous throughput loading pages, doing
>> >ftp, etc..now in netscape in linux, I am getting throughput no higher
than
>> >3.5k/sec and then it starts dropping, and stalls out..goes back up to
>> >3.5/3.6 and drops slowly to 3.0, 2.9,2.8..etc then stalls out..
>> >any ideas? I am using an AMD K6-II 350 overclocked to 400, 128 megs
>> >SDRAM, an SMC EtherEZ 8416 NIC, mandrake 7.0
>>
>> I think that´s a Netscape related problem. Actually I´m so fed up with
>> Netscape that I don´t use it anymore...
>
>Question: when installing Mandrake and networking, it asked for the type
>of NIC I had...well my card type (above) wasn't listed so I choose SMC
>Ultra...do you think it has anything to do with using this driver rather
>than one for my NIC that's more exact? I checked SMC's website and I
>believe that it has a driver for my specific card...or am I being stupid?
>Valjean
My guess is the driver is not the source for your speed problem, although I
really don´t know about the differences between those NIC´s. But- IF SMC have
a correct driver on their website- why not get it and try it out?
Ove
