[vortex] 3cSOHO100-Tx Speed Problem

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 30 Nov 2000, Mark Lubratt wrote:

>  Transceiver/media interfaces available:  100baseTx 10baseT.
>  Transceiver type in use:  10baseT.
>  MAC settings: half-duplex.

OK, so what you see using the lights is correct, it's working as 10baseT.

>  Your link partner does not do autonegotiation, and this transceiver type
>   does not report the sensed link speed.

This is strange. It means that the card couldn't get any info from the hub
about the supported speeds and in this case it is normal to fall back to
some "low performance" media type.

There are 2 things that might help you:
- run 'mii-diag -R' that resets the transceiver. Then run 'mii-diag -v'
again and if it gives again the message about not doing autonegotiation,
there is nothing more to do about autonegotiation.
- run 'mii-diag -F 100baseTx' to force setting media speed (but this is
really unrecommended); if this works, you can then add a module option to
force it at every boot

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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