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http://www.geocrawler.com/lists/3/Linux/435/0/8547851/

On Wed, 29 May 2002, destr0 wrote:

> Hello all.. the first round of this thread will be a little broad.  I
> just installed RH 7.3 and am experiencing interesting problems with my
> Internet traffic.  Frequently I'll start to download something and it
> works for about 10 - 20 seconds and then the connection speed grinds
> down to a halt.  When that happens, everything that would connect to the
> Internet becomes stalled...  I'll have to close all browsers and
> programs with downloads in progress.  Wait a few moments and resume
> everything and it will work again, for a bit, but then do the same
> thing.  I know it has something to do with the Linux install because
> every other computer on my LAN is fine, and when I boot the same box up
> with Redmond, it works fine.  When it starts to happen I get the line:
> 
> eepro100: wait_for_cmd_done timeout!
> 
> logged to /var/log/messages repeatedly.. for instance in a 2 second
> period it logged that message 45 times.
> 
> I'm just hoping someone has some suggestions as to a fix, (hopefully
> something other than re-install the drivers.)
> 
> 
> 
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