Broadband problem

[Jan Håkansson]

fre 2004-05-21 klockan 20.33 skrev Alexander Dalloz:
> Am Fr, den 21.05.2004 schrieb Jan Håkansson um 19:39:
> 
> > My computer is a Dell dimension 4550, and have a integrated NIC.
> > When I look in network-configuration, I can see that FC2 found it and
> > installed that as a "Intel EtherExpress/100 driver". And it worked right
> > away. I have a direct 10 Mb broadband-connection. But I get a very slow
> > connection-speed. When I test the speed with FC2, I only get about 100
> > kbps. When I test it with Win XP, I get about 6000 kbps. I have used the
> > same page http://www.netwalk.org/ to test the speed.
> > I have used several linux-distribution and never had the problem with
> > this computer.
> > Hope someone can help me.
> > 
> > /Jan
> 
> Does ifconfig show you RX or TX errors? Does mii-tool eth0 and ethtool
> eth0 report you something unusual? The driver module fits and was the
> one with other Linux distributions too?
> 
> Alexander
> 

Hi
ifconfig shows no errors.
Then I run ethtool and saw it was half duplex, but I was forced to
change auto-negotiation to off before I could change the duplex to full.
Now it works, I test the speed, and get about 4000 kbps, thats ok.
Thank's very much for the help.

/Jan