On Thu, 13 Apr 2000 16:37:11 +1000 Dean Hamstead wrote:
>
> I fixed this by locking down the 100mbps to 10hd. Which is bad
> considering the cash i paid for the intel inbuisness switch.
> I think smart switches might be better at 100 --> 10 mbps conversion
>
> I dunno if this helps, but for me 100 --> 100mbps fd is ok
>
> Dean
I was just able to answer my own question but others may have run into
this situation.
Yeah... how do you lock down the speed of a network card. Mine is a
skymaster DPL127 PCI network card. I'm currently using my old ISA
NE2000 clone on my netgear hub and Bigpond Cable connection. Damn,
wish I could remember the module, it's autodetected and all, carrier
light is on during boot but as soon as networking starts the carrier
light goes out. Nothing hinted in ifconfig except maybe media type
specification. I once had a look at the module's source but couldn't
figure it out before getting lost in the C code.
Please don't tell me it requires a windows setup program...
Sheesh... now I think I've just answered my own questions by looking
on the floppy disk it came with. There's a linux directory with
instructions for compiling & installing with Slackware and RedHat. I'm
impressed! At least now I can tell you it's the DEC tulip driver and
here's the good bit from the source code...
/* The possible media types that can be set in options[] are: */
static const char * const medianame[] = {
"10baseT", "10base2", "AUI", "100baseTx",
"10baseT-FD", "100baseTx-FD", "100baseT4", "100baseFx",
"100baseFx-FD", "MII 10baseT", "MII 10baseT-FD", "MII",
"10baseT(forced)", "MII 100baseTx", "MII 100baseTx-FD", "MII
100baseT4",};
-----------------^^ 10baseT(forced) sounds good
so somewhere in the network startup
/sbin/ifconfig eth0 media type 10baseT(forced) .....
Hmm the source on RH 6.2 is a later revision of the same code so no
need to even go through that... let you all know how I went... err
probably Monday night <sigh>.
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