[vortex] Link Jabber

George Luft gluft@clayton.com
Sun Jun 30 20:24:01 2002


Running diagnostics on my 3c905, I get the following output.  Is it just a
bad NIC?  I can't seem to get this jabber to go away, even at half duplex.

[root@linuxbox tmp]# ./mii-diag
Using the default interface 'eth0'.
Basic registers of MII PHY #24:  3100 786f 2000 5c01 01e1 40a1 0001 0000.
 The autonegotiated capability is 00a0.
The autonegotiated media type is 100baseTx.
 Basic mode control register 0x3100: Auto-negotiation enabled.
 Basic mode status register 0x786f ... 786f.
   Link status: established.
   *** Link Jabber! ***
 Your link partner advertised 40a1: 100baseTx 10baseT.
   End of basic transceiver information.