Re: A 3c905B behaving strange

Donald Becker <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Antti T J Granqvist wrote:
> 
> > You mean like
> > mii-diag -F 10baseT-HD?
> 
> Well, your last vortex-diag dump revealed that autonegotiation was 
> working. So I would say to try first to limit autonegotiation by using 
> 'mii-diag -A 10baseT-HD' and only then '-F 10baseT-HD' which should 
> disable autonegotiation.
> 
> Note to Donald: maybe I'm too blind to see it now, but my copy of 
> mii-diag does not allow to advertise some more complex media combination, 
> like "10baseT-HD and 100baseTx-HD" which I think might be worth adding.

You must pass a numeric value to advertise complex capability sets.
Do you have a syntax suggestion for doing otherwise?

> > Do I have to reload the driver module without parameters before that?
> 
> Yes, but "debug" is also a parameter and you might want to keep it :-)

Make certain that full_duplex is not set in /etc/modules.conf or
/etc/conf.modules.


-- 
Donald Becker				[email protected]
Scyld Computing Corporation		http://www.scyld.com
410 Severn Ave. Suite 210		Scyld Beowulf cluster system
Annapolis MD 21403			410-990-9993

_______________________________________________
vortex mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/vortex
lmpx.com only provides a reader for public news (NNTP) servers. It is not affiliated with the servers or forums shown here and is not responsible for the content of articles, which is written by their respective authors.