[vortex] Connection to 100megabit linksys switch flakey

[Bogdan Costescu]

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 ?

> 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...

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Bogdan Costescu

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