Re: 10BaseT/100BaseT Question

On 23 Sep 2003, John Cusick wrote:

> Card: Adaptec AN-8944A - 4 Port
> 
> The card loads fine as a module and works, but I would like to know if
> its possible to force one of the ports to 10BaseT

Yes.

> The situation is that one of the ports is used for a couple of networked
> Apple Macs that are up only occasionally. When the module is loaded, if
> the machines are not on, the port defaults to 100BaseT and when the
> machines come on line they are unable to communicate with the server
> since they are 10BaseT and the card does not seem to auto-fall-back to
> the slower speed on that port.

What driver version are you using?
What is the detection message?

If it's using the old driver included with the kernel, try the driver
from scyld.com

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

> # options = 0,0,0,0

This is the correct syntax.  But the driver should detect the speed
automatically.

> Is there a way to set either modules.conf or the ifcfg scripts to set
> the particular port to 10BaseT (in this case, eth3)

You can also use
   mii-diag -F 10baseT

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