[NTLUG:Discuss] New findings on cable modem issue

[Kenneth Loafman]

Here's one thing to try.  Some hubs/switches are not compatible with
all NIC's.  Surprise, but its true.  I've got 3 or 4 different brands
of NIC's in the computers at home and an el-cheapo hub.  All works
well.  A friend's laptop with yet another brand of NIC will not work
at all most of the time and will sometimes work with very long ping
times.  Weird, yes, but its happened at work and other places, so go
get another hub and try that if you've ruled everything else out.  It
could be the cable modem going into the hub, also.

...Ken

> Patrick Parks wrote:
> 
> Ok, back on the cable modem issue :) Still have not resolved the
> problem, but I found this going through my /var/log/messages file
> tonight:
> 
> Aug 17 00:44:20 C1652034-d kernel: eth0: MII is missing!
> Aug 17 00:44:20 C1652034-d kernel: eth0: found link beat
> Aug 17 00:44:20 C1652034-d kernel: eth0: autonegotiation complete:
> 100baseT-FD selected
> Aug 17 00:44:23 C1652034-d xinetd: xinetd startup succeeded
> 
> The card I am using is a 10/100 56K PCMCIA Linksys, but the hub is
> only a 10 base hub. Does this mean that the card is currently
> running at 100 base, and could this attribute to the problem of
> losing the connection I am having? If so, how would I tell it to run
> at 10 base? Thanks again everyone for the help.
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