tx/rx woes

[Donald Becker]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, Allen B. Cummings wrote:

>   This problem turned out to be rather more odd than I'd first expected, and
..
> At any rate, I played around both with "hardware solutions" and "software
> solutions", but in the end nothing worked until I shoved two Vortex cards
> in. Finally, I was transmitting and receiving. What's even neater is that
> when I went back to just one card, everything still worked.

Look *very* carefully at the cable ends you were using.  I would red-tag
these cables as possible problem sources.

For more recent cards with MII transceivers the 'mii-diag' would have told
you if negotiation didn't complete.

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