From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephan van Hienen Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 01:16:36 +0000 Subject: Re: Still no go with 10mb on 100mb card Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: ultralinux@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, David S. Miller wrote: > Date: Tue, 3 Nov 1998 12:29:08 +0100 (CET) > From: Stephan van Hienen > > no go with the sun happy meal on eth0 (on the scsi/ethernet pci board) > it's connected to a cable modem at 10mbit/sec half duplex > and it gives ethernet time outs > > All I can say at this point is that you must have some very strange > ethernet switch/hub because every single switch/hub I test on here at > Cobalt with both 10 and 100baseT & both full and half duplex all work > correctly with the happy meal. > > Try another hub/switch/network if you can, I bet it works. > > Then we can figure out what is so strange about the one where you have > the problems. the card is directly connected to a LANcity cable modem the only thing i can think of is that the ethernet adres is changed when i boot the 2.1.125 kernel i will look this thing out this week maybe (i hope) it's this this because the cablemodem only responds to the ethernet adress that has been programmed in the eeprom (or something) inside the cablemodem it's only strange that 2.1.112 works ok and that 2.1.125 doesn't :(