[Gllug] AAARRRGH! Another network problem

[Vincent AE Scott]

Adrian McMenamin(adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk)@Thu, May 30, 2002 at 06:07:59PM +0100:
> Well, I've got my new switch - a TE100-S55E - and a couple of machines - my 
> 10BaseT laptop and 100BaseT Dreamcast - can connect to it with no problem, 
> but the one (dual processor machine) I really want to use it (as it NFS 
> mounts a load of things) is having a problem.
> 
> When the PC is physically swiched on the switch correctly sees that it is a 
> 100BaseT machine, but when Linux actually configures the interface - it dies.
> 
> Now I had this problem with another NIC in this machine before, but I changed 
> the NIC and it all went fine with my old 10BaseT hub based network.
> 
> This time no errors appear to be logged, and the OS appears to successfuly 
> have configured the card - a VIA VT 3043 for full duplex operation. Except 
> that it hasn't!
> 
> Anybody have a clue? Searches on google have revealed nothing, so far.
> 
> Can I restrict this card to have duplex and see if that fixes it? If so, how 
> do I do that?

take a look at mii-tool

it allows you to easily set the link speed and duplex.


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