I think I am going to have to by a new NIC as my old ISA Dlink 250T card (NE2000 compatible) refuse to function on my web server box (it works in another Linux box though?!?). Everything appears normal on "ifconfig" but it's only receiving one packet when I ping its address...
Is your distro new on your web server? (ie, could this be software??).
I had a similar problem with some new machines that had fresh VA Linux 7.0 (a RedHat spawn) installs; turns out ping refused to play without some response from DNS (I hadn't hooked them into the outside world, and ping tried reverse lookups). Your symptoms sound the same; I would get one packet response followed by (7000ms * n) gaps on subsequent packets, but ifconfig looked fine. Try 'ping -n'.
Before you buy more, find out what's broken!! Wasting money is what consultants are for!
When you move to 100BaseT and buy a new card anyway, go for 3Com, or something with the Tulip chip. Either should be fine.
