Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:33:23 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> Cc: Roger Hardiman <roger@cs.strath.ac.uk>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 problems with the linksys mx driver Message-ID: <3819DA63.E3B68AC1@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.05.9910290210520.21566-100000@jason.argos.org>
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Mike Nowlin wrote:
>
> > >Autonegotiation is failing. That happens in the Fast Ethernet world.
> > >Buying better quality switches *may* help. ;^)
> >
> > Can you get any better than 3COM's top of the range stacks?
>
> I ran into a similar problem with a couple Linksys cards under both FBSD &
> (ugh) Win95 -- telling the HP ProCurve 2424M to force 100BTX half-duplex
> (didn't try full) fixed the problem.... Still seeing this autoneg problem
> with my cheapy Linksys 100-only hub and my wife's Linksys card on '95...
>
> You'd figure that autoneg would work when everything's by the same
> manufacturer.... :)
But it's not, is just all from the same assembler. The cards and boxes
are assembled from a bewildering supply of chips, all from different
vendors.
Ethernet is so nice, because it just works, except when it doesn't.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/
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