> Ok, the ISP said 10mbps full duplex. I grabbed mii-diag and vortex-diag and > ran them. Forcing it there does not resolve the errors. Neither did setting it > to half-duplex. Setting to 100mbps just made things worse. :-( > > SO, I guess I'll have to live with the error messages ...
Are you *SURE* you successfully forced full duplex on your end? There are *MANY* variations of 3com cards, which may be more or less supported by the driver you're using, and typically problems are more common at the physical layer (the high-level software interface to the controller doesn't typically change much between revisions, but the low-level physical MAC is frequently different, and if the driver doesn't know about the *EXACT* revision of the NIC you're using, there can be problems when trying to peg half/full duplex). Are you seeing any log messages about duplex? Are you seeing any collisions once you go to full duplex? If your local end is really full duplex, and the ISP is full duplex (as they claim), it should basically be *IMPOSSIBLE* to have a collision (the upstream link on my previously mentioned Cogent box currently lists 2,928,407,007 transmitted packets, with *ZERO* collisions). You might also check on the driver load options...once I figured out I needed full duplex with the diagnostic programs, I forced the issue when loading the module: <relevant part of /etc/modules> # Force eth0 to full-duplex tulip options=0x205,0 The options for 3com cards are probably different, but you'll probably be able to do something similar. The correct values to use for the option field came from a combination of the debug programs, and reading through the driver source code. Charles Steinkuehler http://lrp.steinkuehler.net http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
