Re: cable modem lockup

Tim de Wit <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > I've tried forcing the NIC to half-duplex, but still no luck.
>
> How did you force it ?

by using mii-tool or vortex-tool..


> >   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...

The modem indeed only supports half-duplex, and the network card was set
to autonegotiate. There were no module options to force it into full-duplex.
Using the dos-utility i noticed that the card was set to full-duplex
automatically (as read only variable?), and the media setting was on
"autodetect". After setting it to "10Mbit" it solved the problem completely!

Still weird though why the lockup seemed to happen mostly when trying to
access my hotmail account.. and why it never happened under windows.

thanks!

T.C. de Wit
Center of Theoretical Physics, RuG Groningen
Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, the Netherlands

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