3c509b Cyclone: why no 100Mbit/s?

[Jonathan S. Pulling]

> networking is fine, except that im running at 10mbit/s while id like
> to run at 100mbit/s :-)
>
> my kernel version is 2.0.35, and the driver is not compiled as a module.
> i give those arguments to /etc/lilo.conf: append="mem=256M ether=0,0,eth1"
>
>
> any help or pointer would be really appreciated.
>
I had the same problem and resolved it by passing the paramater "options=4"
(which forces the interface into 100baseTX mode) to my 3c59x module.
Documentation available at:
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html



so add:

options 3c59x options=4

to your /etc/conf.modules if you are using modules, or specify that options
command to the kernel with lilo somehow that I am too tired to think of now.

Jon