[tulip] 21143 refuses full-duplex

[Donald Becker]

On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Pfenniger Daniel wrote:

> I have a series of 21140 (Lantronix) and 21143-PD cards (unknown origin). 
> The 21140's understand the full duplex option but not the 21143. 

Do the 21143 cards have MII or SYM transceivers?

> I understand that Don's latest tulip driver is more up-to-date about the 
> 21143 chip, but it doesn't compile in the 2.2.18 kernel, or I don't
> know how to do it correctly.

That's likely your problem -- using an old driver.
Read
   http://www.scyld.com/network/updates.html
The driver *really does* work with 2.2.18...

> alias eth0 tulip
> alias eth1 tulip
> options tulip full_duplex=1,1

You do know that forcing full duplex will break autonegotiation, right?
Try using the driver without forcing the duplex.

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