On 14 March 2007, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Hi all, > > Why am I always the one to get the wierd hardware issues? Here's my > latest. The powers that be at work made me move my desk, and dhcpcd on > *this* laptop doesn't work at *this* network point, or any of the other > four in this row of desks, althought hey work OK on Windows. It's most > certainly a cabling issue, I can go to the server room and plug a > flylead into the *same*port* on the switch and it all works right. A > static ip isn't an easy option as I move between different networks and > don't want to have to keep editing resolv.conf. I'm not allowed to do > my first reaction, which is to swap my outlet with a working one... > > tcpdump shows me this when I insert the network cable: > 16:11:06.855229 IP 0.0.0.0.bootpc > 255.255.255.255.bootps: BOOTP/DHCP, > Request [|bootp] > repeated 6 more times then it times out > > With a static ip, I do get full bandwidth, error free, just like it > should be. So whatever this cabling issue is, it affects only bootp... > > hardware: Dell Latitude D810: > NIC: 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751 > Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 01)
Have you tried to force your NIC down to 100Mb/s early in the boot process? Assuming your network is FastEthernet, autonegotiation doesn't always work properly. Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 Proof of concept of a TSP solver for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/epat-0.1.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
