Is there any method of selecting a network speed on my set up?
It is capable of running at 100mb/sec but have the feeling that it isn’t. Plug in vista on a lap top and no problems at all. It’s also noticeably quicker.
I assume that a straight install does set up bi directional and 100mb/sec?
Yes cable although it may be on eth1 rather than eth0. My PC has 2 ports. One thing for sure Vista is faster. My gear is definitely capable of running at 100mb/sec so the problem has to be linux etc.
I have wondered if MS is using the old sun work station trick of just jumping into the network to gain faster access but it’s the same even if there are no windoze machines connected.
YAST reports a PCI-E ASF Gigabit etherner controller using DHCP and the driver is sky2. No other options offered. It is a 64bit pci motherboard with onboard eth0 and eth1. Eth0 is the one that is being used.
Trouble is I am a little lost in this area as I expect it to just work.