[Gllug] Compiling Drivers

[David Godfrey]

Ben Harwood wrote:

> I have recently purchased an 8-port Netgear FS108 switch and it's work fine
> in half-duplex mode but I want to optimise it to full-duplex.
> The output of mii-tool shows me:
> 
> [root at buddha root]# mii-tool eth1
> eth1: 10 Mbit, half duplex, no link
> 
> However, on a second machine with the exact same NIC (Realtek RTL8319) i get
> 
> karma:~# mii-tool
> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
> 
> I have tried to force media type on the half-duplex one but to no avail. The
> only thing that is different in the two machines is that the first is
> running Redhat 7.2 using module 8139too  while the other is Debian using
> driver rtl8139. So i have attempted to install the rtl8139 module onto the
> Redhat machine but I keep getting error messages when compiling:

I've used Redhat 7.2/8139too full-duplex with no problems. You
haven't set the configuration switch on the FS108 to full duplex have
you? Leave it set to auto-negotiate. What messages do you get in
/var/log/messages about eth0?

Regards
-- 
Dave Godfrey
dave at deltass.co.uk


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