[vortex] Problems with auto-negotiation with 3c905

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Thu, 17 May 2001, Leonardo Rodrigues Magalhães wrote:

> Well, you should be asking ..... what's the problem anyway ?? The
> problem is that letting eth0 get autonegotiation, it works poorly. I got
> 35% of packet loss pinging a local machine, running on the same hub (
> network traffic is very low, no collision problems here ).

Can you get and run mii-diag from ftp.scyld.com and post the results for
eth0 ? Also is it possible that you have a bad cable on eth0 (which might
work at 10, but not at 100Mbit/s) ?

Sincerely,

Bogdan Costescu

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