Re: cable modem lockup

Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306021319270.24272-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
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On Thu, 22 May 2003, Tim de Wit wrote:

>   advertising:  10baseT-FD
>   link partner: 10baseT-HD

This is not OK ! I believe that somehow the card is forced into 
full-duplex mode, while the modem only supports half-duplex. A module 
option or maybe EEPROM default media might cause this...

> But after a seemingly random period connectivity drops to zero and can
> only be restored by physically resetting the cable modem!

Maybe the modem gives up after seeing too many frame errors...

> I've tried forcing the NIC to half-duplex, but still no luck.

How did you force it ?

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