Re: [gentoo-user] (RESOLVED) Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy.

2003-11-06 Thread Mike Williams
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On Wednesday 05 November 2003 23:55, Tom Eastman wrote:

 Thanks everyone for all your help.  As it turns out my initial suspicion
 was correct... it was nothing more or less than a piece of s**t cable that
 couldn't handle 100Mbps.  Changing the cable or forcing the network card
 down to 10Mbs solved the problem.

It's always the blindingly obvious thing you leave till last!

 I guess the moral of the story is that there's *definitely* something to be
 said for going wireless!

Possible, but there really is *definitely* something to be said for buying 
proper patch cables! :)

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[gentoo-user] (RESOLVED) Offtopic: Network switch driving me crazy.

2003-11-05 Thread Tom Eastman
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On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 05:13, Joshua Banks wrote:
 HTH's if nothing has so far. But doing what everyone has mentioned so
 far will basically isolate your problem down to the nic if forceing the
 nic to 10half or 100half duplex doesn't work.

Thanks everyone for all your help.  As it turns out my initial suspicion was 
correct... it was nothing more or less than a piece of s**t cable that 
couldn't handle 100Mbps.  Changing the cable or forcing the network card down 
to 10Mbs solved the problem.

I guess the moral of the story is that there's *definitely* something to be 
said for going wireless!

Cheers,

Tom

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