Re: Vortex driver bug?
Donald Becker <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, LupusNebula wrote: > Wonder if you could help me. I have installed Xp and RH 8 on a Dell > i8200 Laptop. > > I am experiencing problems in Linux with the network driver. IP packets > are transmitted 100% but not all are received. I think it has to do with > the Full/Half Duplex modes. > It seems that if "autonegotiate" mode is set, the driver does not > handle receiving packets, in my case as "half duplex". > I have set the full_duplex=0 parameter/option in modules.conf, but it > has no effect. > > Here is more information : > > Driver : 3Com3c590/3c595/3c90x/3cx980 What driver version? What is the detection message? Are you setting any driver options? > mii-tool results Please send the 'mii-diag' output. > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:08:74:E7:31:F8 > inet addr:80.218.104.133 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:24599 errors:34 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:60 > TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:1531994 (1.4 Mb) TX bytes:10870 (10.6 Kb) > Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80 It appears that you have the driver set to forced full duplex, while the remote machine is in half duplex mode. What is the link partner (switch/hub type?). -- 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