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PCI NIC blues (modified 0 times) Perplexer Hi, hopefully someone can point me in the right direction: My WebSurfer is running on generic ISA HDD controller and Intel Pro/100+ Management NIC. Running 98lite (SE sleek interface) I can see the other computers on my network, but when I try to access files, the process times out. I also get timeouts when browsing network directories. Sometimes I can transfer a small (<30K) file successfully. The strange thing is that if I network the Websurfer using my Linksys 10/100 USB NIC, everything is accessible; no timeouts. The stranger thing is that I am able to browse the web (using Internet Connection Sharing) while using the "problem" Intel NIC. I can download large files with no problem. It's almost as if network transfers over a certain speed (i.e. 12Mbit for USB Nic, or 1.5Mbit for ADSL over ICS) cause the timeouts. I know lots of you are using PCI 10/100 cards in your Websurfers; is anyone else having problems? Thanks! 05-02-2000 21:21:56

RE:PCI NIC blues (modified 0 times) hackaway looks like you're overloading the ethernet frame. I had a same problem in Linux with a PCI 10/100. If you are limited by network speed, so the frame is not overloaded, you're fine. But it can happen that you try to push data through at a higher rate than the system is capable, in which case the network will go down. Just restart the network services. 05-02-2000 21:29:52

RE:PCI NIC blues (modified 0 times) AntiPasto I get something similar definately... It seems my limit as far as file size is like 10mb within 5 minutes... or something really f'd up... I tried to get larger ASF and MPEGs on mine, and I had a little better success breaking the things into 2 meg files, and trying to transfer it that way, but eventually things would slowly stop working. If I'd unplug the Linksys USB and then plug it back in I could browse again (web and LAN)... but its really strange indeed. Cache problems? I dunno.... Kinda ticks me off... I can do IRC, and simple browsing fine... but after that... well hehe... 05-02-2000 21:32:05

RE:PCI NIC blues (modified 0 times) Perplexer Thanks for the suggestions. I ended up removing the Intel adapter and replacing it with a cheapo generic 10/100 NIC. Things are working fine now, go figure. Now only if I could reduce this television flicker, I'd have a decent setup... 05-02-2000 22:12:45

RE:PCI NIC blues (modified 0 times) gern blanston Profile I had a very strange and persistant problem on one of my boxes. After flashing the new bios (not the new new bios, the new bios, you understand), the box would still not play nicely with a PCI NIC. I did lots of swapping of components to try to determine the source of the problem. Nothing. As a last ditch effort, I removed the isa/pci standoff and reseated it. Bingo! Hopes this helps someone as it was driving me nuts. 05-03-2000 02:41:16

RE:PCI NIC blues (modified 0 times) greghol Profile The BIOSes from 4bios.zip? Most of these work for my PCI LAN card. Greg 05-03-2000 09:52:29

RE:PCI NIC blues (modified 0 times) Stoney After installing my intel pci 10/100 nic I also had problems transfering large files, I tweaked software for hours, still would lockup hard when transfering large files. I am running windows 98 se with isa ide controller and pci nic, I finally booted into safe mode and went into device manager , removed all the motherboard resources and irq pci steering objects, also removed the 10/100 board. Then rebooted, it detected all the stuff again, but it left out IRQ PCI steering objects. I was then able to transfer huge files, transfered 3 gigs worth of data so far, I think I'll call it a sure fix cuz it used to crash after about 5 megs of data. It worked for me, so it very well may work for you all :) happy hacking... questions?? Stoneyy@budweiser.com 05-03-2000 20:29:40

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