Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-17 Thread Doug Alcorn
Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Please... ANY suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated. If you wanted to eliminate all possibilities, put one of your potato boxes on the same cable as the bad box. That would make sure you don't have some odd cabling/bad port on the switch.

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-17 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:09:55PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: I suggest you spend 39$ on an Intel eepro100 (z-buy.com, think shipping on those cards is free) and give it a try. I'm betting it will also fail to work in this machine, and you'll discover the problem is physical plant related,

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-17 Thread Nate Duehr
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:21:21PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:25:14AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: Heres an interesting thing I tried. The cards came with a software disk (needed msdos to boot) that allowed me to switch between 10Mb, 100Mb, and Auto-neg. The cards are

RE: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-17 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Duehr Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:24 AM To: Jeff S Wheeler Cc: Jason Lim; debian-isp@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:09:55PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: I suggest you spend 39$ on an Intel eepro100 (z

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-17 Thread Ted Deppner
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:21:21PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:25:14AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: port after around 5-10 minutes, and said it shut the port down due to conflict. Thats it. Thats all it said (oh how helpful). This is a Cisco switch btw. Can you just

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:25:14AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: Heres an interesting thing I tried. The cards came with a software disk (needed msdos to boot) that allowed me to switch between 10Mb, 100Mb, and Auto-neg. The cards are set by default to Auto-neg, as they should be. I FORCED it to

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:09:55PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: I suggest you spend 39$ on an Intel eepro100 (z-buy.com, think shipping on those cards is free) and give it a try. I'm betting it will also fail to work in this machine, and you'll discover the problem is physical plant related,

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-16 Thread Nate Duehr
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:21:21PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:25:14AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: Heres an interesting thing I tried. The cards came with a software disk (needed msdos to boot) that allowed me to switch between 10Mb, 100Mb, and Auto-neg. The cards are

RE: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-16 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
Of Nate Duehr Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2001 12:24 AM To: Jeff S Wheeler Cc: Jason Lim; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network On Sun, Apr 15, 2001 at 05:09:55PM -0400, Jeff S Wheeler wrote: I suggest you spend 39$ on an Intel eepro100 (z-buy.com

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-16 Thread Ted Deppner
On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 10:21:21PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 04:25:14AM +0800, Jason Lim wrote: port after around 5-10 minutes, and said it shut the port down due to "conflict". Thats it. Thats all it said (oh how helpful). This is a Cisco switch btw. Can you just

RE: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network Well, here is the stupid and interesting thing. I've got more than 5 boxes here, all using the SAME realtek cards. Now if it was some negotiation error between card and switch, then it, in theory, should occur with all

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Jason Lim
eff S Wheeler" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Jason Lim" [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:09 AM Subject: RE: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network I suggest you spend 39$ on an Intel eepro100 (z-buy.com, think shipping on those car

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Duane Powers
Jason Lim wrote: Well, here is the stupid and interesting thing. I've got more than 5 boxes here, all using the SAME realtek cards. Now if it was some negotiation error between card and switch, then it, in theory, should occur with all of them. Also, I mentioned that I had SWITCH cards

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Jason Lim
Well, here is the stupid and interesting thing. I've got more than 5 boxes here, all using the SAME realtek cards. Now if it was some negotiation error between card and switch, then it, in theory, should occur with all of them. Also, I mentioned that I had SWITCH cards around, so a functioning

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Tech Support
Please... ANY suggestions and help would be greatly appreciated. I'm sure you've already tried these but: Are you sure it is not a noisy cable problem? - Try a different cable - Try a crossover cable directly from card to card to eliminate the possibility of a card to switch problem. - You

RE: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Jeff S Wheeler
@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network Well, here is the stupid and interesting thing. I've got more than 5 boxes here, all using the SAME realtek cards. Now if it was some negotiation error between card and switch, then it, in theory, should occur

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Jason Lim
Good questions... answered individually below: - Original Message - From: Tech Support [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-isp@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:03 AM Subject: Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network Please... ANY suggestions and help

Re: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network

2001-04-15 Thread Jason Lim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Jason Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED]; debian-isp@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, April 16, 2001 5:09 AM Subject: RE: Auto 10/100Mb card fallback from 100 to 10 on 100Mb network I suggest you spend 39$ on an Intel eepro100 (z-buy.com, think shipping on those cards is free) and give