[vortex-bug] [3c905B] 2kb/s receive, 30kb/s transmit

[Adam]

If there is no compiled version of that program, then as far as I know I 
cannot run it (I know little about C/C++ compilation under linux, but we 
have no compilers, a very slow net connection, and none of the 
headers/standard sources that I think are needed for compilation?). Life 
is hard with 1.2k/s internet connection (rural phonelines).

If there is anywhere I can a compiled version, I'll happily try it. And 
if there isn't a compiled version, is there any reason why not? Can't 
someone put the version they compiled on the FTP site?

And no, I hadn't noticed people being asked to use this program before, 
or I would have tried it. All I've done is a search on the archive, so 
perhaps I just missed the particular posts that asked for it.

What are "forged" NICs?

Adam

Orginal email:
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, [iso-8859-1] Adam wrote:

 > But now all is pear-shaped, and I CANNOT get a
 > (relatively) newly installed machine to work at more
 > than 2k/s receive, 31k/s transmit. (this is the same
 > symptom that normally occurs when there are
 > auto-negotiation problems).

Hmm, most of the cases that I've seen have one direction working pretty
well. But in your case the speeds are way too low anyway.

 > I have tried:
 >  - options = 0 or 2 or 10 (normally forcing 10baseT
 > fixes things)
 >  - full_duplex = 0 (sometimes duplex problems too?)

As you said that you've seen similar problems reported, you should have
also seen the first thing that what we usually ask: output of "mii-diag
-v" (mii-diag can be obtained from ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/diag).

mii-diag can also be used to force the transceiver, so that you can see
what settings work, before "permanently" using them in /etc/modules.conf.

 > ...I am 99% sure I've had the same model 3com NIC working from the same
 > Mandrake CD's before)

As reflected in some posts of few weeks ago, not all NICs are created
equal. Especially the forged ones.

-- 
Bogdan Costescu