[vortex-bug] Problems with 3c920, vortex and a 10baseT only router

Donald Becker becker@scyld.com
Mon Dec 2 16:36:01 2002


On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Melchor Marín wrote:

> > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Donald Becker wrote:
> 
> >This is bad -- you are getting CRC errors.  This typically means that you
> have a bad cable.
> 
> Might be a bad cable; but, in this case, I think that this is not the cause:
> when I use this cable to connect other computer to this router (an old

> >What does 'mii-diag --watch' report as your pinging?

[[ Nothing -- no link restarts. ]]

OK, try loading the driver with a higher debug level, or setting a
higher message level with
  mii-diag eth0 --msg-level 0xff


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