[vortex] a problem with "transceiver type " of a 3c900 card

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Mon Aug 5 17:21:01 2002


On 5 Aug 2002, Arnaud Ligot wrote:

> I have 2 3c900 cards in the same computer. when I do ifconfig eth1 up,
> the led link of the switch power on but when I do ifconfig eth0 up, the
> led power on and 2 second later power off!

What driver version?
What is the detection message?

> Before this test, I verified the transciever type in vortex-diag -aa and
> it said 10BaseT for the two card but after this test, only one card is
> 10BaseT and the second is 10Base2.

What does 'vortex-diag -ae' report?

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