What is the problem with the Linksys LNE 10/100 card?

[Christopher Smith]

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On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 05:31:16PM -0600, Jim Morris wrote:
> Your suspicions are quite correct. The problems lie in the media
> negotiation, and I've not tried to figure it out myself.  It only occurs
> with the newer cards (made in the past 6 months or so), as some older
> Linksys cards I have work fine.
> 
> The problem does not occur if you connect to a 10BaseT hub, or device
> such as a cable modem, DSL modem, etc.  It only occurs for me if I
> connect one of these newer cards to a 10/100BaseTX hub or switch.  It
> happens with a hub, not just a switch, so I am not sure the duplex
> negotiation is the problem.
> 
> For me, the solution was just to use the Linksys provided driver. That
> won't be a solution when the Linux 2.4 kernel arrives though, since the
> decision was made in the kernel to break all backwards compatibility
> with device drivers for Linux 2.2 and earlier.

Thanks for the informed response. I *think* I've actually had some
luck with a 100BaseTX hub, but I can't remember. This is one of the
newer cards, and I did notice it's different from one of the older
ones.

I can confirm that the card does not work with 2.3.51, and I haven't
tried updating to the 2.3.99preX series as I don't expect much
different.

I ran a diff on the 0.91g-ppc driver against the one from Linksys, and
while there were differences, it was not at all clear to me just what
the magic change was. It really shouldn't be that hard to figure out,
but evidently it is. :-(

- --Chris

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