Check your duplex setting, seeing as you have a dumb hub
you might need to force 10mbps/half-duplex
Your symptoms sound like your at full duplex.
Dean
Rachel Polanskis wrote:
> Hi sluggers,
>
> I've managed to get myself a groovy little notebook running SuSE 7.1
> on it.
>
> I went and bought a 10/100 PC card interface for it and even though
> I couldn't find any consumer/tech info about the interface online,
> it worked with Linux straight out of the box. Probably something to
> do with the box saying it supported Linux, which was pretty cool ;)
>
> Anyway, the card does work well, but seems to choke on certain activities
> such as when I connect using Knews to my private newsserver and
> also on ftp downloads. When I am using the Web or ssh, the choke
> is not so noticable but I do feel it when getting news or doing
> file transfers. A 2Mb file that takes a few seconds on my
> workstation takes a couple of minutes on the notebook, for eg...
>
> My private LAN is just 10Mb ethernet connected to a dumb hub. The news
> and FTP servers are on this same LAN. I notice with the PC Card
> I get a lot of collisions which I do not get on my Suns ;)
>
> What I am asking is for some help sorting out my network tuning.
>
> I know where to do this on a Sun but on Linux it's not so
> obvious. I read the PCMCIA HowTo and the Ethernet HowTo, but
> seem to be missing something about how to actually tune my
> interface to it's best potential. Although the interface is 100Mb
> capable, I am not using this functionality (as mentioned) but it
> seems I'm not getting the best performance I could, even at 10Mb.
>
> If it helps, the Interface is called a "MobileConnect FE16-TX 10/100 adaptor".
> It is supposedly a DLink clone and is emulating an NE2000 at first guess.
> I could find zero info about this interface by Googling, but only found
> a few near misses...
>
> The notebook is a HP Omnibook 800CT, so it has plenty of Linux support
> and CPU power to match the Interface.
>
>
> Thanks!
> rachel
>
>
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