Hi! > You are optimistic :o)
That´s a good starting point, I think - otherwise I would have thrown my Equipment out of a window many times already ;) > I can get a fine 100Mb/s with this equipment + poor cables (a few tens of > meters + same path as the power distribution). With this setup, negociation > takes ages though. YMMV. I only use 5e cables that are connected to the gigabit switch. Unfortunately, the shop didn´t have a Netgear 5-port gigabit switch left, so I took one of D-Link. It works quite good now - I copied a 6.5GB sized folder from the laptop to the desktop and it took about 10 Minutes. Yes, I know, this is still to much time for a gigabit net, but I´m aware that pcmcia 32bit can only reach a max of 133 MB/s, so this is quite okay, I suppose - and in comparison to 2,5 hours that took the copy process before, it´s a really big step in the right direction. Anyhow, I copied the folder under shell with scp. Under KDE 3.4 with konqueror and fish-protocol (which is ssh as far as I know), it still took much longer. So it´s a question of protocol?!? > Apparently you use a kernel: > - on a laptop (hello suspend !); > - heavily vendor patched; > - with vmware module; > - with a wireless module (proprietary + same irq as the r8169 -> *yuck*). I know that this is a big pool of errors in it, but it´s kind of difficult to change the configuration at this level right now. What I can try is to install another flavour of linux, e.g. FC or debian. Which one would you prefer? I also bought a second PCI gigabit card for one of my PCs and tried to copy a folder which size is about 2.1 GB. I got the same results as on the laptop (shell: good speed; konqueror: too slow) with the the same speed as with the pcmcia card of the laptop - so there is still an issue open to me. > -> There are too many unknown. Please remove whatever pcmcia card you can > on the laptop and try a 2.6.13-rc6 kernel on both hosts _without the > proprietary stuff_ loaded after boot, without X. > Do not force the media, even if it takes some time to settle down, issue > a simple ssh -c blowfish $BIG_FILE between the two hosts and report the > transfer rate (include dmesg on both hosts + vmstat 1 + cat > /proc/interrupts). I´ll try that as soon as I´m home - I bet the people here at work would be very happy if I´d bring all of my own equipment here and build up my own network at workplce ;) > You should be able to directly connect the laptop to the desktop computer > with a simple cable: the r8169 is supposed to automagically cross the > signal. I have not tried this feature with very long cables but it > otherwise works here (50cm cat5 cable allows immediate detection of the > link + solid 1000Mb full duplex). Wait, did I get you right: It does not matter if I connect a straight through or a crossover, the driver will automatically recognize the cable connected and then selecting the right transfer method? This sounds interesting, but a little bit unbelievable to me, as then the network device has to somehow inform the driver about this. Or do I misunderstood completely something here? Anyhow, the cables I´m using right now are 2.0 metres long, so there should be no problem. If there are other informations in the meantime I should know about, please write me. And thanks a lot for your help! Mike - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
