[vortex] No more MII or autoneg with RHEL3?

Bogdan Costescu bogdan.costescu at iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Tue Oct 26 07:16:00 PDT 2004


On Fri, 22 Oct 2004, Stephen Malowany wrote:

> Now I have installed RHEL3 (both AS U3 and ES U2), and the NIC driver
> is no longer using MII, and no longer autonegotiates to 100baseTx
> full-duplex.

I assume that this is still the problem with kudzu. Could you please 
disable kudzu ('chkconfig kudzu off') and then reboot and see if the 
driver still doesn't report autonegotiation ?

Anyway, the InternalConfig register is read from EEPROM at startup by 
the card, you can't change that.

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