Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-08 Thread Russell Jones
John E. Perry wrote: James Knott wrote: G T Smith wrote: John E. Perry wrote: Russell Jones wrote: ... Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your pennies on something else. Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-08 Thread Carlos E. R.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Thursday 2007-06-07 at 10:07 +0100, G T Smith wrote: > If I remember correctly shielding is a two way thing, basically you are > running a potential 40ft radio aerial in the latter case. No. That's because you are supposed to ground the shield

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-08 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Knott wrote: > John Andersen wrote: >> On Thursday 07 June 2007, James Knott wrote: >> If I remember correctly shielding is a two way thing, basically you are running a potential 40ft radio aerial in the latter case. If you have a

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread James Knott
John Andersen wrote: > On Thursday 07 June 2007, James Knott wrote: > >>> If I remember correctly shielding is a two way thing, basically you are >>> running a potential 40ft radio aerial in the latter case. If you have a >>> lot of cables or have anything which is sensitive to radio emissions >

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread John E. Perry
James Knott wrote: > G T Smith wrote: >> John E. Perry wrote: >>> Russell Jones wrote: ... Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your pennies on something else. >>> Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (only a little >>> more costly t

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread John Andersen
On Thursday 07 June 2007, James Knott wrote: > > If I remember correctly shielding is a two way thing, basically you are > > running a potential 40ft radio aerial in the latter case. If you have a > > lot of cables or have anything which is sensitive to radio emissions > > close by, Cat 6 starts ma

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread James Knott
G T Smith wrote: > John E. Perry wrote: > > Russell Jones wrote: > >> ... > >> Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your > >> pennies on something else. > >> > > Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (only a little > > more costly than cat-5 when I bough

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-07 Thread G T Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John E. Perry wrote: > Russell Jones wrote: >> ... >> Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your >> pennies on something else. >> > > Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (only a little > more costly than c

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-06 Thread John E. Perry
Russell Jones wrote: > ... > Disagree. For 100Mbps, just get Cat. 5. It'll work fine. Spend your > pennies on something else. > Same here. I have my home network connected with cat-5E (only a little more costly than cat-5 when I bought it, and it runs 100Mbps just fine -- even over the 40 ft to

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-06 Thread Russell Jones
M Harris wrote: On Tuesday 05 June 2007 12:53, Sunny wrote: I had problems with a netwrok card, which could not negotiate correctly 100 mbps speed because of faulty cable, and I could make it run on 10 mbps, until I found out that the problem is with the cable, and I need to replace it.

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-05 Thread M Harris
On Tuesday 05 June 2007 12:53, Sunny wrote: > I had problems with a netwrok card, which could not negotiate > correctly 100 mbps speed because of faulty cable, and I could make it > run on 10 mbps, until I found out that the problem is with the cable, > and I need to replace it. I had the s

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-05 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue June 5 2007 11:57, James D. Parra wrote: > > From Yast, assign this card a static IP address. Let's see if there > > is a driver issue with this card in Linux. Since this is a dual > > boot machine and it works in windows, giving the NIC a static IP > > will be a good test to see the card ca

RE: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-05 Thread James D. Parra
On Tue June 5 2007 10:13, James D. Parra wrote: > On Tue June 5 2007 07:33, Rainer Brinkmann wrote: > > Perhaps the cable dropped down. > > > ...when I reboot > into Windows the DHCP servers hands out the usual IP address > immediately. It is only in Linux, after it worked with this network > card

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-05 Thread Sunny
On 6/5/07, Carlos F Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I did that. I just assigned the usual IP number in Yast (along with subnet mask and gateway), but I still cannot ping the gateway or other machines in the LAN, nor is it seen by them. Check if you have installed netdiag package. It contains

Re: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-05 Thread Carlos F Lange
On Tue June 5 2007 10:13, James D. Parra wrote: > On Tue June 5 2007 07:33, Rainer Brinkmann wrote: > > Perhaps the cable dropped down. > > > ...when I reboot > into Windows the DHCP servers hands out the usual IP address > immediately. It is only in Linux, after it worked with this network > card

RE: [opensuse] router DHCP suddenly not talking to one machine (1 0.1)

2007-06-05 Thread James D. Parra
On Tue June 5 2007 07:33, Rainer Brinkmann wrote: > Perhaps the cable dropped down. ...when I reboot into Windows the DHCP servers hands out the usual IP address immediately. It is only in Linux, after it worked with this network card for 2 days, that the problem happens. There is no error mes