[vortex] Connection to 100megabit linksys switch flakey

[John Post]

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John Post             | Email: johnp@marine-boy.nu

On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Bogdan Costescu wrote:

> On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, John Post wrote:
>
> > ...connecting my linux machine to a 100 megabit Linksys switch.
> > ...
> >   link partner: 10baseT-HD
>
> These 2 statements somehow come into contradiction. The card does not
> sense that the switch is capable of 100Mbit and duplex. Have you tried to
> force media in any way for this mii-tool output ?
>

No,  I did not force media for the mii-tool output.  I did Force it to
100baseT-FD at one point during my testing to see if I could get a stable
link established.

I may have caught some extra messages from my messages file,
which might have included my switching the network connection back to my
3Com 10 megabit switch, so that I could at least have a connection that
worked properly.  That is the connection status I get from my 3Com
switch.



> > eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82.
>
> Media error, in agreement with the above.
>
> > Oct 11 15:46:14 sid mii-tool: eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
> > Oct 11 15:46:15 sid mii-tool: eth0: no link
>
> But this makes it similar to other reports seen lately. Can you try to
> turn off any kind of power management that you might be using ? Something
> like passing "acpi=off apm=off" on the kernel command line in the lilo or
> grub config file...
>


I will add them to my lilo.conf file and see if it helps.  I assume that
they should be added to the append line in the lilo.conf file, since they
produce errors in the lilo compilation when they are on a line by
themselves.


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> Bogdan Costescu
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