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Subject: Re: de driver - STILL needs a patch?
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autodetect with 100Base-T doesn't always work. It is best to 
set the interface to a certain speed and duplex. (This was confirmed for
me with Ultrasparc boxes and Cisco CAT5000 devices.) I have
heard similar stories with other manufacturers products.


Dru

On Mon, 22 Dec 1997, dennis wrote:

> 
> de? still doesnt always comes up at 100Mb/s on boot (cant autodetect) with
> the -C rev devices. with v2.22 there was a patch to make all that work....is 
> there a patch that makes 2.2.5 work?
> 
> Why can't this stuff get commited after half a year?
> 
> Dennis
>