Subject: Ethernet works under MacOS, but not LinuxPPC
From: John Ruschmeyer (jruschme@mac.com)
Date: Sun Aug 06 2000 - 20:25:30 MDT
Okay, I'm at wits end here...
Last week, I installed YDL 1.2 on my PowerCenter. As you may recall from my
posts to this list, everything was working fine except Ethernet to my cable
modem (Motorola cable modem, Comcast @Home). The on-board Ethernet which
worked fine under MacOS would give me be almost totally unable to receive
packets under LinuxPPC. Instead, I would just see the ifconfig statistics
show lots of receive errors including framing and overrun errors.
The other day, I broke down and installed a Realtek 8139-based PCI NIC.
Works find under MacOS and, after some initial problems which I blamed on an
outdated driver, worked fine under Linux.
Actually, it worked fine for about 24 hours. After that, I installed the
RealAudio player. Somewhere in that process, the dream ended. Now, if I ping
my gateway, I get one or two responses, then nothing except the occasional
message from the 8139 driver about an overlength frame being received. If,
however, I boot MacOS, everthing is fine with the networking.
Needless to say, I'm frustrated and very confused. What is different about
OpenTransport networking and the Linux TCP stack that would let a system
work under one os, but not the other? Has anybody else seen a problem like
this? Any thoughts at all?
Thanks in advance...
-- John Ruschmeyer jruschme@mac.com
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