This one seems to have a big problem. Not only is it flipping on speed,
but it has negotiated full duplex. Since a hub cannot do full-dup ....
- rick warner
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Jack Bowling wrote:
> Hub that works is a 3Com HomeConnect 10Mbps 5-Port Hub model 3C19260.
>
> Now....stick the following hub which is a Linksys Etherfast 10/100
> Auto-Sensing 5-Port Workgroup Hub model EFAH05W in the circuit (this hub
> came with two matching Linksys cards as given above) and run the
> tulip-diag and here is what we get:
>
> tulip-diag.c:v2.03 7/31/2000 Donald Becker ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html
> Index #1: Found a Lite-On PNIC-II adapter at 0x9000.
> Port selection is 10mpbs-serial, full-duplex.
> Transmit started, Receive started, full-duplex.
> The Rx process state is 'Waiting for packets'.
> The Tx process state is 'Idle'.
> The transmit threshold is 72.
> The NWay status register is 000020ce.
> The current PNIC-II MAC address is 00:a0:cc:36:dd:1d (a000a000
> 36cc1ddd).
> The current PNIC-II WOL address is 00:a0:cc:36:dd:1d.
> Internal autonegotiation state is 'Ability detect'.
> Use '-a' or '-aa' to show device registers,
> '-e' to show EEPROM contents, -ee for parsed contents,
> or '-m' or '-mm' to show MII management registers.
>
> Note the NWay register seems to be in a different state, and probably
> more importantly the autonegotiation is stuck in "Ability Detect" mode
> instead of "Negotiation Complete". As I write, the Port 2 indicator
> light on the Linksys hub is cycling between 10 and 100...apparently the
> hub cannot
> autonegotiate with its own matching card. One would be tempted to
> blame the hub rather than the card since the card works fine with the
> 3Com hub.
>
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