[tulip] smc8432 EtherPower ethernet card

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Wed, 19 Jul 2000 02:14:32 -0400 (EDT)


On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Jons wrote:

> I am using smc8432 EtherPower ethernet card on Linux Mandrake 7.1 and I
> think I am experiencing some problem with tulip on my card. Every so often,
> I get a message saying:
> 
> "no 21041 10baseT link beat, Media switched to 10base2."
> 
> I read that my card does not work well with "Link_testing". Is it possible
> that the problem is based on the link test? with which option can I use to
> disable link_test or switch to "10BaseT No_Link_Test" mode.

What driver version are you using?
The v92 driver should allow locking the 21041 to 10baseT mode.

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