Linux tulip and Win95 Dec21140

[Nicholas Edwards]

Why would you be getting colliosn in FD, FD removes collision detection,
because it assumes a dedicate, "point to point" connection.

Nicholas

On Thu, 1 Oct 1998, Tomoo Nomura wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have an Win95 with Dec21140-AF (Acer ALN-310) and Samba 1.9.17p2 on Linux 2.0.35 with
> Dec 21140-AF, tulip 0.89H. These are connected by crossover cable.
> 
> I suppose they can work as 100baseTX-FD.
> 
> When I open a file on Sambe from Win95, especially outlook.pst, it it very slow. It might
> cause many collision. Indeed, when I connected the two by a 10-base-T hub, the collision
> LED lighted every times.
> 
> -------------------------------------------
> Here is dmesg
> 
> eth2: Digital DS21140 Tulip at 0xd800, 00 60 67 30 56 f1, IRQ 11.
> eth2:  EEPROM default media type Autosense.
> eth2:  Index #0 - Media 10baseT (#0) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
> eth2:  Index #1 - Media 100baseTx (#3) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
> eth2:  Index #2 - Media 10baseT-FD (#4) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block.
> eth2:  Index #3 - Media 100baseTx-FD (#5) described by a 21140 non-MII (0) block
> .
> eth2:  MII transceiver found at MDIO address 1, config 3100 status 782d.
> eth2:  Advertising 01e1 on PHY 1, previously advertising 05e1.
> Max size:264704   Log zone size:2048
> First datazone:166   Root inode number 339968
> Appletalk 0.17 for Linux NET3.035
> eth1: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> eth1: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> eth2: Setting full-duplex based on MII Xcvr #1 parter capability of 45e1.   
> -------------------------------------------
> 
> 1. Why it is very slow ?
> 2. Do they work as 100baseTX-FD correctly ?
> 3. Which is better FD or HD ?
> 
> Tomoo
> 
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