[vortex] A 3c905B behaving strange

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Bogdan Costescu wrote:
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, Antti T J Granqvist wrote:
> 
> > You mean like
> > mii-diag -F 10baseT-HD?
> 
> Well, your last vortex-diag dump revealed that autonegotiation was 
> working. So I would say to try first to limit autonegotiation by using 
> 'mii-diag -A 10baseT-HD' and only then '-F 10baseT-HD' which should 
> disable autonegotiation.
> 
> Note to Donald: maybe I'm too blind to see it now, but my copy of 
> mii-diag does not allow to advertise some more complex media combination, 
> like "10baseT-HD and 100baseTx-HD" which I think might be worth adding.

You must pass a numeric value to advertise complex capability sets.
Do you have a syntax suggestion for doing otherwise?

> > Do I have to reload the driver module without parameters before that?
> 
> Yes, but "debug" is also a parameter and you might want to keep it :-)

Make certain that full_duplex is not set in /etc/modules.conf or
/etc/conf.modules.


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