3CSOHO100-TX problem

[Donald Becker]

On Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Ben DeLong wrote:

> I'm going crazy here because I know I have seen the answer to this 
> question on this list before but I can't seem to find it.  :(

You should be using the vortex at scyld.com list for questions about the
3Com Vortex/Hurricane/Cylcone/etc. Ethernet adapters.

> I am using 3COM 3cSOHO100-TX network cards to build a small test 
> cluster.  When I power my nodes on, my network switch indicates a 100Mb 
> connection to the cards.  However when the network connections are 
> activated in the boot sequence, the light on the switch changes to 
> indicate a 10Mb connection.  What needs to be done in order to run the 
> network at 100Mb?

Nothing.  As in "less than you are doing now".

Overriding the transceiver setting to an one invalid for your specific
board will cause the transceiver to work at 10baseT speed only.  There
is a check for this misconfiguration in current driver versions, but
older drivers would configure the NIC as specified.

Read
   http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html


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