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From: Jonathan Feldkamp <jonathan@skygod.cns.ksu.edu>
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To: Jim Freeze <jim@freeze.org>
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Subject: Re: Ethernet card: 'auto select'?
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Jim Freeze wrote:

> I have a cable modem and am using a 3COM ethernet card with no problems.
> However, dmesg reports that I need to disable the 'auto select'
> feature of my vx0 card.
>
> chip0: <VIA 82C597 (Apollo VP3) system controller> rev 0x04 on pci0.0.0
> chip1: <VIA 82C598MVP (Apollo MVP3) PCI-PCI bridge> rev 0x00 on pci0.1.0
> chip2: <VIA 82C586 PCI-ISA bridge> rev 0x47 on pci0.7.0
> ide_pci0: <VIA 82C586x (Apollo) Bus-master IDE controller> rev 0x06 on
> pci0.7.1
> chip3: <VIA 82C586B ACPI interface> rev 0x10 on pci0.7.3
> vx0: <3COM 3C595 Fast Etherlink III PCI> rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.9.0
> utp/tx[*utp*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address
> 00:60:97:4f:aa:a0
> Probing for devices on PCI bus 1:
>
> Can someone tell me what this means. It appears to be innocuous. Is it?

There is a DOS utility on driver disk 1, with it you can turn off
auto-negotiate and lock the card down to either 10 or 100 MB, i am pretty
sure that is what this is referring to.

If you don't have the disk, download

http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/3c59x/3c59xn.exe

the EXE you will need to run is 3C59XCFG.EXE

hope this helps
Jonathan Feldkamp



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