3c59x problems

[Marina Buitrago]

Price, Jason wrote:
> I have just installed Fedora for the first time, and am running into
> problems with my NIC.  The box has a 3com 905B card in it, which is capable
> of 100full.  The OS seems to recognize this capability, and also recognizes
> the link partner also has this capability.  However, the link auto
> negotiates to 10full.  I have tried forcing it via mii-tool, but it won't
> take the change.  I added these lines to modules.conf:
> 
> "options 3c59x options=4 full_duplex=1"
> 
> But, that failed to obtain a link at all.  Below is the output of mii-tool
> with no driver options:
> 
> eth0: 10 Mbit, full duplex, link ok
>   product info: vendor 01:e1:c1, model 56 rev 7
>   basic mode:   isolate, collision test, 10 Mbit, full duplex
>   basic status: autonegotiation restarted, link ok
>   capabilities:
>   advertising:  100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD flow-control
>   link partner: 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD flow-control
> 
> 
> Any ideas how I can force this to 100full?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Jason
> 
> 

I use the 3c59x module too and I couldn't make my card work properly 
with the default autonegotiation, so I forced 100-FD both at the switch 
and my computer, and now the errors are gone.

These are the relevant lines in "/etc/modules.conf":


######
# Tarjeta de red (3Com 3c905C-TX/TX-M [Tornado])
#
# 0x200 = 10BASET, FD
# 0x204 = 100BASETX, FD
# 0x008 = Auto
#
alias eth0 3c59x
options 3c59x "options=0x204"



Hope this helps.

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