[vortex] 3C900B Serious Problems

[Donald Becker]

On Tue, 2 Jan 2001, Shawn Starr wrote:

> How do i set the driver to use half-duplex?
> if 0x200 is full duplex at 10BaseT

Ethernet is half duplex by default, and thus the driver defaults to half
duplex operation.

> whats the bit to make it not full-duplex?

The driver is always half duplex and 

> There may be problems with the card trying to autonegotiate its media.
> When i try and manually insmod the driver it still insists on:
> 
> Oct 15 11:10:35 (none) kernel:   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split,
> autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
> 
> How do i stop it from doing this?

Stop it from doing what?

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