Re: 3c509B card loses link
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Paul Hampson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 05:09:48AM -0500, Donald Becker wrote: > > On Wed, 4 Dec 2002, Paul Hampson wrote: > > > I have a 3c509B card in a co-located machine. Since we moved .. > > > from a location with a 10Mbps switch/hub to a 100Mbps switch, > > > the computer falls off the network every few days. Also, the > > > link light on the back of the card does not light up, and > > > the switch only sees it as 10Mbps. > > > > Something must be forcing the speed or setting the wrong transceiver > > type. That is exactly what is happening. > > What driver version are you using? > > What is the detection message? > > This is a (give-or-take) stock 2.4.18 kernel, with whatever patches > Debian have graced me with... (Nothing in that list obviously relates) > Nov 25 17:47:51 yurika kernel: 3c59x: Donald Becker and others. www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html > Nov 25 17:47:51 yurika kernel: 00:0c.0: 3Com PCI 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xec00. Vers LK1.1.16 Use the driver from scyld.com, and your problem will be fixed. mkdir /tmp/netdrivers/ cd /tmp/netdrivers/ ncftp ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/netdrivers.tgz tar xfvz netdrivers.tgz make make install > yurika:~/3com# ./vortex-diag -eee > vortex-diag.c:v2.12 11/27/2002 Donald Becker ([email protected]) > http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html > Index #1: Found a 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx adapter at 0xec00. > Station address 00:10:4b:13:78:2e. > Receive mode is 0x07: Normal unicast and all multicast. > EEPROM format 64x16, configuration table at offset 0: > 00: 0010 4b13 782e 9055 c508 0036 4b4e 6d50 ___K.xU___6_NKPm > 0x08: 2979 0000 0010 4b13 782e 8010 0000 002a y)_____K.x____*_ > 0x10: 32a2 0000 0000 0000 0000 0004 0000 10b7 _2______________ > 0x18: 9055 000a 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 U_______________ ... > Saved EEPROM settings of a 3Com Vortex/Boomerang: > 3Com Node Address 00:10:4B:13:78:2E (used as a unique ID only). > OEM Station address 00:10:4B:13:78:2E (used as the ethernet address). > Device ID 9055, Manufacturer ID 6d50. > Manufacture date (MM/DD/YYYY) 8/8/1998, division 6, product NK. > No BIOS ROM is present. > Options: force full duplex, link beat required. .. > > This indicates some sort of misconfiguration -- likely a bogus > > transceiver setting. > Ah. The alternative is to set the transceiver to a _valid_ setting, instead of forced to 10baseT-FDX. -- 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