On Aug 29, 2010, at 12:27 AM, Nadav Har'El wrote:
While I have quite a bit of networking experience, I have found myself
stumped by a frustrating problem in my home network - which
surprisingly
appears Linux-specific - and I wonder if anyone ever saw such a thing.
My guess is that it's an autonegotation speed and or duplex problem.
Try setting the speed to 10mbit and the duplex to half.
Make sure the cables are correct, not crossover cables. The switch
accomodates autosensing and will work with either, but the computer
may not.
If that works, try setting it 100mbps and half duplex, if that works
try full duplex.
If it works at 10 and not 100, it's probably bad cables.
10 year old switches generally did not support autosensing of cable
type, full duplex and many of them were only 10mbit.
Geoff.
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