Mike, At the risk of sounding over dramatic, the NE2K was unquestionably the worst network card ever made. The linux drivers home page for this card is here: http://www.scyld.com/ne2k_pci.html Quote: "No document about this hardware can be written without an initial flame: PCI NE2000 clones are a bad idea." It goes on to explain that this hardware was made only as a cheap proof of concept and was never intended for production. I'll let you read the rest of the gory details for yourself but the bottom line is you should get a different card. Regards, -- John Lange OpenIT ltd. www.Open-IT.ca (204) 885 0872 VoIP, Web services, Linux Consulting, Server Co-Location On Mon, 2006-01-30 at 20:06 -0600, Mike Pfaiffer wrote:
Following Bills suggestion to compare the results of ifconfig with ipconfig and winipfcg under M$ I found more information available under Linux. I looked at the info for the network card in the M$ drivers. It was set up for half duplex under M$ (I changed it to full). I don't know if the software would affect hardware settings at this point. If I change it under M$ would it change under Linux?
BTW, the card is a Realtek RTL8029(AS) which gets seen in Linux as an NE2K-PCI.
More things to report... I transfered around 10 large files in the space of a couple of hours (even allowing for the crashes from M$). Transfer was a single file at a time. Under Linux three simultaneous files takes 18 - 21 hours.
After transferring the files (and getting numerous complaints about the C: drive running out of space although it was downloading to G:), I decided to muck around with the Network places icon. I mangage to set up access to the ftp server as a desktop window. I'll play around with it later. Any advice for getting something similar running under Linux?
Later Mike