[parisc-linux] EISA 10/100 nic for 715 systems ?

Dominik Kubla dominik.kubla@uni-mainz.de
Mon, 29 May 2000 21:39:28 +0200


On Mon, May 29, 2000 at 08:35:58AM -0500, Steven Pritchard wrote:

> Either the cards or HP-UX was kind of weird about switching between 10
> and 100.  I think I only got that card to talk 100 with a particular
> brand of switch, and that was only when I forced the switch to 100
> half duplex.  (The PCI cards did the same thing, but a kernel patch
> for 10.20 released late last year seemed to fix autonegotiation.)

Same experience here: the 735 happily negotiated full duplex without
actually doing it.  Problem solved by forcing switch port to halfduplex
and shifting all esential services over to the Linux servers...

Dominik
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