Pedro, This did the trick! Many thanks for your help. -Bill-
Pedro Sanchez wrote: > > Most likely the autonegotiation is not working well, probably because > the switch your PC is connecting to has this feature disabled. If you > are loading the driver as a module add the following options when you > load it > > full_duplex=1 options=12 > > to force it to work in 100Mbps Full Duplex. For instance, you can put > the following line in /etc/modules: > > options 3c59x full_duplex=1 options=12 > 3c59x > > Hope it helps > > -- > Pedro I. Sanchez > > Hello All, > I recently had to move a system from a 10MB ethernet segment to a > 100MB segment. I edited "/etc/init.d/network" to re-assign the IP > parameters and that worked just fine, but I can't seem to get the card > (a 3Com 3c905B 10/100) to run at 100MB. During system boot-up the > "100MB" LED on the card is lit, but as soon as the filesystems are > mounted the 100MB LED goes out and the 10MB LED comes on. Everything > else works OK except the speed is wrong. I'm running the Debian 2.1 > distribution and the 2.0.36 kernel. > > I'm kind of at a loss as to what to look at here- "ifconfig" does not > address the speed of the interface and I can't find anything that looks > like it might (I thought this speed negotiation stuff was done in > hardware). If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd sure > appreciate it! > > Thanks! -- Bill Von Elm Information Technology Division Brookhaven National Laboratory e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." - Aldous Huxley