slow LAN connection

ekoome · 03-08-2004, 12:12 AM

I have a RealTek RTL8139C 10/100 mps NIC card on Slack9. However, when it loads automatically the 8139too driver, and try connecting to my Windows Machine on the connection is very slow.

I have a 10mbps hub and the NIC autodetects a 10mbps HD connection.

When i boot the machine on RH9 the connection is fast despite using the same card,driver and hub and at 10baseTX-HD.

What is wrong with my slack connection.

PS: i have no firewall enabled.

Eric

waever · 03-08-2004, 01:55 AM

try to update your kernel, get the latest one from http://www.kernel.org

Xa! · 03-08-2004, 04:58 AM

there is a problem with rtl8139
try to look through a mailing-list archieve http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/realt...x/realtek.mbox there are a lot of solutions, but... yes, try to change your kernel

davidsrsb · 03-08-2004, 10:19 AM

I have RTL8139s in several machines without problems. The C stepping and newer seem stable.

flyfishin · 03-08-2004, 12:08 PM

Did you look to make sure that the card is running at 100mbps full-duplex? You can type mii-tool at a command prompt as root and it will show you output like the following:

eth1: negotiated 100baseTx-FD, link ok

I've had a network card go bad and it started running in HD mode.