[TriLUG] Network Issue on New Laptop

Jason Tower jason at cerient.net
Fri May 13 10:50:55 EDT 2005



Ron Joffe wrote:
> On Friday 13 May 2005 07:48, Scott Chilcote wrote:
> 
>>Ron Joffe wrote:
>>
>>>I've got my hands on a new Dell 9300 Inspiron laptop. I'm having some
>>>strange networking problems. OS is SLES-9.
>>>
>>>lspci lists the nic as :
>>>
>>>BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)
>>>
>>>The module that was loaded (selected automatically) is b44. On boot, eth0
>>>is assigned a dhcp address, and the nameservers are properly populated in
>>>/etc/resolv.conf. So from this I know I am getting some connectivity.
>>>
>>>If I try to ping a device on my local subnet, I get:
>>>
>>>Destination Host Unreachable for a few hundred times
>>>
>>>Then I get very slow ping times(in the 10's of seconds) for a few hundred
>>>times
>>>
>>>Then I get sendmsg: No buffer space available
>>>
>>>I have tried using the bcm4400 drivers, and no luck there. What other
>>>suggestions would you have.
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>Ron
>>
>>Ron:
>>
>>Broadcom has downloadable linux drivers on their web site:
>>
>>    http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php
>>
>>If you haven't tried them, it might be worth a go.
>>
>>     Scott C.
> 
> 
> I have tried the broadcom drivers from the above mentioned site. This did not 
> seem to alleviate the problem. I have also tried to force the nice to 10/half 
> and that did not seem to help either.
> 
> Other suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Ron

toss in a pcmcia nic and see if the problem persists, make sure you're 
not chasing the wrong problem.

jason



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