Javad Ayaz wrote: > i tried both half duplex and full duplex...but it only went up slightly > to 48.KBs. > > I am now going to try to connect directly!!! > > i will report back!! > >
What card have you got on the Ubuntu box? It isn't a Realtek RTL8111/8168B Gigabit ethernet adaptor is it? I have one of these in two of my PCs and I found that I was getting regular dropouts on the network until I manually downloaded the Realtek Linux driver and compiled it (it's released under the GPL). I think it was down to the driver included with Ubuntu detecting the card incorrectly (I think there was some very slight difference in the cards which caused problems). I posted something on my blog (well, I say blog, I haven't updated it in in a couple of months!). You can find it here anyway: http://communitylinux.blogspot.com/ The link to the Realtek site works but I think it's a slightly newer driver (8.006.00 rather than 8.005.00 which I used) but it certainly fixed the problem on Ubuntu 7.10. Can't say I've noticed any issues on Ubuntu 8.04 as such. Might be worth trying if you do have one of these Realtek network adaptors on your motherboard anyway. I'd also second trying a crossover cable between the two machines and setting them both to have static IP addresses. Good luck. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
