I have some nice "used" Intel Pro 100s and Compaq NC3121 cards for $5 if you're interested. I'm using one of the Compaq NC3121 cards in one of my Linux machines, solid as a rock. RH 8.0 found it and installed it just fine. Sam. Sam. David Phillips wrote: >PHPTOm writes: > > >>On my debian box, the network connection "pauses". It is serving web >>pages and I have samba set up, and it seems every minute or so the >>connection drops. Sometimes for 30 seconds. Then it picks back up >>and I can connect to it. Is this most likely a hardware issue? >>Anyone heard of this before? >> >> > >It sounds like a bad network card or issues caused by a cheap network card. >Make sure you have the latest kernel. If so, try changing the network card. > >RTL8139 based cards (8139too driver) are a bad idea. While they should >work, it is a lousy chipset and I've seen problems with them on certain >machines. These chipsets are usually found on very cheap cards (and even >some not-so-cheap cards if you are shopping at Best Buy or similar). A new >Linksys LNE100TX (tulip driver) is a decent card for a home machine. I've >always had good luck with eepro100 based cards in both Linux and FreeBSD on >machines that push a lot of traffic. 3com cards (3c59x driver) are also >solid. > >Your hub / switch might also be broken. > > > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list