Unable to get epic equipped linux systems talking

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

I have a 10Mb/s network of RedHat5.0 machines that I want to get talking at 100Mb/s.

Two of the machines have had epic100 cards added as a second ethernet
interface and are connected together by a 100baseTx hub.

Unfortunately - they seem totally unable to communicate - can anyone tell me
what I'm doing wrong?

Here is the info from mii-diag and ifconfig about the  machines -

[root@lin3 richard]# ./mii-diag eth1
 MII PHY #3 transceiver registers:
   3000 7809 0181 4401 0081 4081 0003 ffff
   ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
   0040 0018 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
   ffff ffff ffff 003e ffff 0018 0000 0dc0.
 Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x7809 ... 7809.
   Link status: not established.
   Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
 Vendor ID is 00:60:51:--:--:--, model 0 rev. 1.
   Vendor/Part: Quality Semiconductor (unknown type).
 I'm advertising 0081: 100baseTx
   Advertising no additional info pages.
   IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD protocol.
 Link partner capability is 4081: 100baseTx.
   Negotiation  completed.
[root@lin3 richard]# /sbin/ifconfig eth1
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:0B:2F:DC
          inet addr:192.168.1.2  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:2000 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6900


[root@lin2 richard]# ./mii-diag eth1
 MII PHY #3 transceiver registers:
   3000 7809 0181 4401 01e1 4081 0003 ffff
   ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
   0040 0018 ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff ffff
   ffff ffff ffff 003e ffff 0018 0000 0dc0.
 Basic mode control register 0x3000: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x7809 ... 7809.
   Link status: not established.
   Capable of  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT.
   Able to perform Auto-negotiation, negotiation not complete.
 Vendor ID is 00:60:51:--:--:--, model 0 rev. 1.
   Vendor/Part: Quality Semiconductor (unknown type).
 I'm advertising 01e1: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx 10baseT-FD 10baseT
   Advertising no additional info pages.
   IEEE 802.3 CSMA/CD protocol.
 Link partner capability is 4081: 100baseTx.
   Negotiation  completed.
[root@lin2 richard]# /sbin/ifconfig eth1
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:E0:29:0C:CC:F5
          inet addr:192.168.1.1  Bcast:192.168.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          TX packets:5741 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6900

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