[eepro100] Forcing 100Mb Full Duplex on (2) Intel OEM i82557/i82558.

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 29 Dec 2000, Graham Wooden wrote:

> RedHat 6.2 w/ 2.2.16-3 kernel.
> Compaq DL380, with onboard Intel 100 and PCI Intel 100.

DL380?  Do you mean DL360?  Or are our DL360 systems already obsolete?

> Donald Becker's eepro100 driver, v1.11. Loaded as a module.
...
> I am trying to get both of these cards, forced to full duplex 100 megabit.
> When loading as a module, only eth0 is being forced correctly, not eth1.
...
> Here is what my /etc/conf.modules has:
> alias eth0 eepro100
> options eepro100 debug=3 options=0x30
> alias eth1 eepro100
> options eepro100 debug=3 options=0x30

Easy.  You passed the same _single_ option.  Instead do
 options eepro100 debug=3 options=0x30,0x30

This is shown in the example at
   http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html

> options '0x30' is 100Mb with Full Duplex, right?  
> I even tried to pass full_duplex=1 in the same line, no go.

  full_duplex=1,1

> Only eth0 is getting full duplex.
> I really need both to full duplex, 100Mb on both cards.

Now, you know that I should give you the "never force full duplex" lecture...


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