Re: Problems detecting 100Mbps with 3c59x (Vortex)
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, CJ Kucera wrote: > On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 05:12:20PM -0500, Donald Becker wrote: > > Full duplex is only correct when it is auto-negotiated. > > Aaah. Works for me! When the link data rate goes up, you will start seeing - out-of-window collisions on half duplex side, and - corrupted Rx packets on the full duplex side. > Hm, yeah. Well, they'll have to do until I can find some time to go > out and snag some new ones then... Or until I can make my way over > to pricewatch, I suppose. At any rate, I'll keep it in mind; thanks. Check out your local mega-box-shop (BestBuy, Frys, etc.) -- $5-$15 is now common for NICs on sale. > In other news, I seem to have shoehorned the current 3c59x driver into > compiling directly into the kernel. It actually wasn't that hard (the > Makefile changes were trivial); basically all I had to do was remove > some of the "#ifdef MODULE" and a couple of references to > "linux/modversions.h", which doesn't exist when your kernel isn't using > modules. Oh, and calls to "module_init" and "module_exit" towards > the end. > > If anyone's interested, I've put up the patches at: > http://apocalyptech.com/linux/3c59x/ This would be in the current driver if there was a clean way to make it work with all kernel versions. -- 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