[vortex] Connection to 100megabit linksys switch flakey

Bogdan Costescu bogdan.costescu@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de
Mon Oct 13 15:04:01 2003


On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, John Post wrote:

> eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-FD flow-control, link ok
> ...
>   link partner: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
> flow-control

OK, now it's completely different. It shows that both ends use 
autonegotiation; that the card was able to sense the capabilities of the 
switch and that the both agreed on using 100Mbit full-duplex.

So, please go on with my suggestion of disabling power management...

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Bogdan Costescu

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