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>I just put a Netgear FA-311 card in my Linux box.  In my Win2k box I have
>an D-Link DFE530-TX.  I used the driver that came with the Netgear card
>and was getting a 10% error rate on TX packets.  I grabbed the natsemi
>driver and now I don't have any TX errors but but the Windows box has them
>now.  Any clues?  I don't know much about networking and both cards are
>half-duplex, they were before too.  I'm running XFree/Cygwin to display
>X on my Windows box and the speed is acceptable but I'm sure it would be
>even better if I could get rid of these darn collisions.  I'm asking here
>because I'm assuming that others have similar setups and might be able to
>provide clues
>Thanks
>Jason

> I tried setting both cards to full duplex but the performance was even
> worse. I get 180k-200k/sec from the Win2k box to the Linux box, this was
> reversed before I changed to the natsemi driver. Do some cards just not get
> along?

>> I tried setting both cards to full duplex but the performance was even
>> worse. I get 180k-200k/sec from the Win2k box to the Linux box, this was
>> reversed before I changed to the natsemi driver. Do some cards just not get
>> along?

>Thats a duplex mismatch. I suspect you have a hub which isn't or doesn't do
>full duplex.  If the hub doesn't do autoneg/full then fix it to half. You
>will get collisions on a half duplex net.

>karl.

>>Thats a duplex mismatch. I suspect you have a hub which isn't or doesn't do
>>full duplex.  If the hub doesn't do autoneg/full then fix it to half. You
>>will get collisions on a half duplex net.

>>karl.

> Why only one direction though?  Linux->Win hums along at 970Kbps while the
> Win->Linux maxs out around 200Kbps, that is with both cards running
> half-duplex.  Upgrading the driver on the Linux box just switched the
> direction of the collisions.  Thanks for the insight.