Re: [Fwd: problem with dual 3com card]

Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <Pine.LNX.4.44.0306041950570.20917-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
On 4 Jun 2003, maillists (josef radinger) wrote:

> 3c59x was loaded with full_duplex debug=7

... and it gave you what you wanted to:

> I'm advertising 0541: Flow-control 100baseTx-FD 10baseT-FD

It's only advertising full-duplex modes.

> and the switch was on full_duplex

Do you mean that you _force_ the switch to full-duplex ? This would 
actually be consistent with:

> Link partner capability is 0000:.
>   Negotiation did not complete.

You can't use autonegotiation at one end (card) and force at the other 
end (switch). Put the switch into autonegotiation/nway mode and everything 
should work even without any mii-diag help or kernel parameters...

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Bogdan Costescu

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