> What distro is this? I remember dhcp-client from potato didn't work so > well for me, but the one from Woody has been great - same provider, so > we're all in the same boat with the (maybe) impending bankruptcy. I > would look in other places if the static setup is also failing - it > sounds like you might have bad NIC module or something, if you're > properly negotiating a connection, but getting a really slow one that > fails after a little while. Maybe post details of what NIC and what > driver?
This is the potato dist. The NIC is an NE-2000 compatible (SN3200CT), using the NE2K_PCI driver compiled into the kernel. The kernel is 2.2.17. ---Mike
