[TriLUG] Network Issue on New Laptop

Ron Joffe rjoffe at yahoo.com
Fri May 13 10:45:45 EDT 2005


On Friday 13 May 2005 07:48, Scott Chilcote wrote:
> Ron Joffe wrote:
> > I've got my hands on a new Dell 9300 Inspiron laptop. I'm having some
> > strange networking problems. OS is SLES-9.
> >
> > lspci lists the nic as :
> >
> > BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
> >
> > The module that was loaded (selected automatically) is b44. On boot, eth0
> > is assigned a dhcp address, and the nameservers are properly populated in
> > /etc/resolv.conf. So from this I know I am getting some connectivity.
> >
> > If I try to ping a device on my local subnet, I get:
> >
> > Destination Host Unreachable for a few hundred times
> >
> > Then I get very slow ping times(in the 10's of seconds) for a few hundred
> > times
> >
> > Then I get sendmsg: No buffer space available
> >
> > I have tried using the bcm4400 drivers, and no luck there. What other
> > suggestions would you have.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Ron
>
> Ron:
>
> Broadcom has downloadable linux drivers on their web site:
>
>     http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php
>
> If you haven't tried them, it might be worth a go.
>
>      Scott C.

I have tried the broadcom drivers from the above mentioned site. This did not 
seem to alleviate the problem. I have also tried to force the nice to 10/half 
and that did not seem to help either.

Other suggestions?

Thanks,

Ron



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