[vortex] Vortex driver bug?

LupusNebula LupusNebula@netscape.net
Fri Jan 31 17:15:00 2003


Hi there,

Wonder if you could help me. I have installed Xp and RH 8 on a Dell 
i8200 Laptop.

I am experiencing problems in Linux with the network driver. IP packets 
are transmitted 100% but not all are received. I think it has to do with 
the Full/Half Duplex modes.
It seems that if  "autonegotiate" mode is set, the driver does not 
handle receiving packets, in my case as "half duplex".
I have set the full_duplex=0 parameter/option in modules.conf, but it 
has no effect.

Here is more information :

Driver : 3Com3c590/3c595/3c90x/3cx980


mii-tool  results

eth0: no autonegotiation, 10baseT-HD, link ok
product info: vendor 00:10:5a, model 0 rev 0
basic mode:   autonegotiation enabled
basic status: autonegotiation complete, link ok
capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
advertising:  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control
link partner: 10baseT-HD

ping  results

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:74:E7:31:F8       
inet addr:80.218.104.133  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
RX packets:24599 errors:34 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:60
TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:1531994 (1.4 Mb)  TX bytes:10870 (10.6 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80


Thanks for the help :)