[tulip] Fianlly! End to issue 'netgear's fa310-tx and d-link switch'

[Karl Hammar]

So...
you basically say that you fixed the problem by removing the card.

What if you try the netgear, but remove all other nic's.

Regards,
/Karl

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From: Jaap Brink <brink@tiger.3dem.bioch.bcm.tmc.edu>
Subject: Re: [tulip] Fianlly! End to issue 'netgear's fa310-tx and d-link switch'
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 23:45:32 -0600 (CST)

> 
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Dan Hollis wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Jaap Brink wrote:
> > > corrupted. I have one more arrow on my bow to try which is to swap a nic
> > > from machine  that works at 100 Mbps and full-duplex with the one in the
> > > linux box. More on that later.
> > 
> > Can you move the fa310 to another PCI slot?
> > 
> > -Dan
> > 
> 
> Well, I did a little more than this. I first tried to simply swap the
> nic's, ie the cheetah nic from 0 -> 1 and the netgear nic from 1 -> 0. No
> success. Next, I pulled a cheetah nic from another machine and replaced
> the netgear with it. Success! rtl-diag showed that the card was in
> full-duplex and everything's working now. I don;t now why this worked
> because the netgear works just fine at full-duplex in one of the other
> machines. Perhaps it make sense to someone.
> 
> Anyway, thanks to everybody who was thinking about my problem. 
> 
> Jaap
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