3c905B card do want to play with me at 100Mb

[Ryan Bedwell]

Ove Ewerlid wrote:

> Fabrice Piccinali wrote:
> >
> > I have a 3c905B card who does not want to play at 100M.
> > When i boot the computer the 100-led is on, but a few second later it
> > switchs to 10.
> >
> > My linuxbox is connected to a 3COM Superstack 2 Switch 3300.
> >
> > I have kernel 2.0.30 from slackware and 3c59x.c version 0.99F.
> >
> > how can i speed my network ?
> > Thanks to anyone who can help me ...
>
> This yields a working full duplex connection for me with 3c905B cards:
>
>   /sbin/insmod 3c59x options=25 full_duplex=1 debug=1
>
> If you see the source you'll find that the options value 25 does not
> make sense.
> But it works!
> (The debug flag is probably not necessary, I have not tried to remove
> it.)
>
> Ove
>
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Thanks, Ove.  I hadn't been able to force my 905B into full-duplex  yet
(had gotton it to 100Mbps), but this solved it.

Ryan

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Ryan Bedwell  [ryanb (at) transera (dot) com]
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