[ILUG] Problem with network card

[Ruairi Hickey]

On Thursday 09 February 2006 09:56, Thomas Bridge wrote:
> On 2/9/06, Paul Mc Auley <paul at peema.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 8 Feb 2006 23:53:33 +0000

> > For some reason, I do seem to have come across random cheapish elderly
> > cards just giving up, particularly after the machine has been moved. I
> > don't know, surge death of some sort?
>
> See above.   I'm pretty sure the card is about five years old so....
>
>
> T.

	I had the strangest network error on my Dell Precision, onboard 3c59x 
recently (drove my wireless ISP  nuts).  I was seeing a huge amount of packet 
loss on linux, and surfing was a nightmare.  Ethereal was showing all sorts 
of problems.  
       Was setting up a pc (ubuntu) for an in-law at home and noticed this 
machine had no problems.  With a live cd on my own machine I also had no 
problems... Decided to load ubuntu onto my machine and all was well until I 
loaded the nvidia binary drivers... and the network errors returned.  This 
also affects XP, while the 2d nv is fine.....
	Switched graphics cards and now the network is OK with 3d graphics !!  

Only cause I can think of if interference from the card to the nic when in 3d 
mode... either way...pretty wierd


Ruairi