Re: The beat goes off

Bogdan Costescu <[email protected]> Mon, 2 Jun 2003 13:30:04 +0200 (CEST)

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.devel,gmane.linux.drivers.vortex.user
Message-ID	<Pine.LNX.4.44.0306021325160.24272-100000@kenzo.iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>

On Sun, 25 May 2003, Laurence W Reves wrote:

> I'm currently forcing the 3x59x driver to use 10BaseT-FD (I *do* have a 
> pretty naff PCMCIA card, so I'll believe XP when it seems to be 
> incapable of doing 100).

Keep in mind that getting the cards to talk 100baseTx is different from 
actually transferring (close to) 100MBit/s.

> However, at the desktop end, it seems to do everything fine, except that 
> it always finishes up with "Negotiation did not complete" (see below).

Is any of the cards into "forced" media settings ? This usually disables 
autonegotiation.

> I'm really surprised/irritated that MS manages to at least do
> 10BaseT-FD.

Well, nothing from what you described points to MS actually using FD (as 
opposed to HD). How do you know that it's using FD ?

>     Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
>   I'm advertising 0061: 10baseT-FD 10baseT

Something's fishy here... You _are_ limiting the card's media 
advertisments...

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Bogdan Costescu

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