wierdness with 100BaseT interface in linux.

On Sun, 2004-01-04 at 21:13, technomage wrote:
> On Sunday 04 January 2004 08:52 pm, Craig White wrote:
> >
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> > change cables - sounds like you've got a cable with only 4 wires (cat 3)
> > and you would need cat 5 (8 wires) - I remember this exact same thing
> > happened to someone else. Windows doesn't always report the true nature
> > of the connection.
> >
> > Craig
> tried that.....
> no dice. also, windows may not report, but the ftp client I was using was able
> to get and put a 30 meg file in 6 seconds in windows. tried the same thing in
> linux and get was 6 seconds but put was 14 minutes.
> go figure....
>
>
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try another hub/switch

another NIC from Fry's is under $10 - you might want to try that

Craig