[tulip] Setting tulip card to 100BaseTx

Chris North chris@mazunetworks.com
Fri, 20 Apr 2001 17:19:20 -0400


Hello:

I'm new to this list, so forgive me if this has been asked already. I am
using a Znyx ZX346Q Ethernet card with 2 tulip chips on a Red Hat Linux
7.0 system. I have a configuration that requires that autosense be
turned off and the card be forced to use full-duplex 100BaseTx. I looked
through some of the tulip notes and found the instructions for forcing
the change with LILO. I added this line:

append="ether=0,0,5,eth1 ether=0,0,5,eth2"

to my lilo.conf. I then ran lilo and rebooted. The card still seems to
be autosensing. Here's the output from dmesg:

tulip.c:v0.91g-ppc 7/16/99 becker@cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov
eth1: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0x3100, 00:C0:95:E0:9C:40, IRQ 16.
eth1:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth1:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2)
block.
eth1:  Index #1 - Media 10baseT-FD (#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY
(2) block.
eth1:  Index #2 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4)
block.
eth1:  Index #3 - Media 100baseTx-FD (#5) described by a 21143 SYM PHY
(4) block.
eth2: Digital DS21143 Tulip rev 65 at 0x3180, 00:C0:95:E0:9C:41, IRQ 17.
eth2:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
eth2:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21142 Serial PHY (2)
block.
eth2:  Index #1 - Media 10baseT-FD (#4) described by a 21142 Serial PHY
(2) block.
eth2:  Index #2 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21143 SYM PHY (4)
block.
eth2:  Index #3 - Media 100baseTx-FD (#5) described by a 21143 SYM PHY
(4) block.
via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99  Written by Donald Becker
  http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html


Does anyone have any suggestions for what I'm doing wrong? Thanks in
advance!



Chris