[vortex] Forcing 100FD

[Bogdan Costescu]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Andrea Carpani wrote:

> There are a lot of comments about autnoeg being good and forcing
> bad, but I found no explanation on why. I might have missed some
> messages thoug.

You certainly missed some. Did you notice the high number of reports 
of errors whenever somebody tried to force some media setting ?

> Any chance to force 100FD with command line tools? I don't seem to
> have carrier errors if I use the kernel parameters.

mii-diag -F used to work.

Please note that initialization with 0x204 as you did disables MII.  
mii-diag requires a properly working MII, so the two might happen in 
different ways.

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Bogdan Costescu

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