Re: auto-negotiation | force fixed

On Thu, 31 Oct 2002, Frank Lenaerts wrote:

> > > Each switch is a 3Com Office Connect (10/100Mbps). All hosts (A, B and
> > > C) have 2 NICs: eth0 (indicated by 0) is a Myson MTD803 using the
> > > fealnx driver
> > 
> > Grrrmmmmm.  U
> 
> Are these cards that bad?

No, I mean that you should use the myson803.c driver.

> On the other hand, if I issue an mii-diag -w eth0 (the Myson NIC), I
> get the following output. This could also be due to the fact that
> vendor-specific registers are misinterpreted.
> 
> --- begin ---
> Basic registers of MII PHY #0:  0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000.

Try with 'myson803.c'

mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/
cd /tmp/netdrivers/
ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz
tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz
make
make install


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