[vortex-bug] Problems with 3c920, vortex and a 10baseT only router

[Donald Becker]

On Sun, 1 Dec 2002, [Windows-1252] Melchor Marín wrote:

> The problem is that I cannot establish a connection from the portable
> computer to the router. I have tried to force the 3c920 card to 10baseT
> (because I can connect perfectly to the other computer using 100baseTx and I
> figured that the problem could be the negotiation), but the only thing I can
> get is this:

Forcing the speed and duplex is almost never the correct solution to a
problem.

> [root@Quevedo mamarin]# ping 10.0.0.1
> PING 10.0.0.1 (10.0.0.1) from 10.0.0.4 : 56(84) bytes of data.
> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=19 ttl=64 time=0.642 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=21 ttl=64 time=0.631 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=22 ttl=64 time=0.633 ms
> 64 bytes from 10.0.0.1: icmp_seq=23 ttl=64 time=0.641 ms

What driver version are you using?
What is the detection message?
What are the error counts in /proc/net/dev?

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