[vortex] 3cSOHO100-Tx Speed Problem

[Mark Lubratt]

I'll try these when I get home tonight.

One thing I forgot to mention is that I have the same card in my WinME
machine connected to the same hub.  And the status lights indicate 100Mbs.
So, that card seems to do the negotiation and high speed stuff just fine.
This makes me think it's a driver issue instead of a hardware issue.

Sincerely,

Mark


-----Original Message-----
From: Bogdan Costescu [mailto:Bogdan.Costescu@IWR.Uni-Heidelberg.De]
Sent: Thursday, November 30, 2000 10:24 AM
To: Mark Lubratt
Cc: vortex@scyld.com
Subject: RE: [vortex] 3cSOHO100-Tx Speed Problem


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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