[TriLUG] Network Issue on New Laptop

[Ron Joffe]

On Friday 13 May 2005 10:50, Jason Tower wrote:
> Ron Joffe wrote:
> > 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
>
> toss in a pcmcia nic and see if the problem persists, make sure you're
> not chasing the wrong problem.
>
> jason

Jason,

I didn't have a PCMCIA nic handy, but I did have a USB based one. The USB nic 
worked perfectly. 

Other suggestions ?

Thanks,

Ron