On Sun, Aug 29, 2010, shimi wrote about "Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???": > You didn't mention what was before this Edimax switch? The old Hub?
Before we had chaos, and darkness upon the abyss ;-) But seriously, this is a new house, and a new setup. What's driving me crazy is that all the "complicated" things work (I have cat-6 wiring between rooms for 10 Gbps ethernet, a "router", cable modem, and everythign else) and the simple thing - a switch for several computers in one room - is what I can't get right.. > It could be that there's an Ethernet negotiation problem, in such a way that > your MAC doesn't get registered on the switch (?). Not necessarily a Linux > problem. Maybe a NIC problem, or an Ethernet cable problem. Of course that > with a Hub that would work anyways, because a Hub broadcasts to all ports, > regardless of negotiation... Like I said on a previous mail, the speed negotiation works. The guess that the switch has a bug and forgets my computer's MAC address makes sense, but how come it forgets the Linux computer's and remembers the Windows one? :( > So, did you try a different NIC? Unfortunately, while I had old hubs and other crap lying around, but not NICS. This is a 3 year old NIC that I doubt should have any problems working with modern switches, and it doesn't have any problems without them. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Aug 29 2010, 19 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |"Arguing with nyh just doesn't pay off." http://nadav.harel.org.il |-- Muli Ben-Yehuda, Linux-il list _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
