Re: DM9102A & Netra X1
On Sun, Aug 19, 2001 at 11:55:24PM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 06:46:34PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
> > From: Adam McKenna <adam@debian.org>
> > Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 17:46:11 -0700
> >
> > > > Was this on 100 base-T or 10 base-T connections? Full or half
> > > > duplex. I have only got a 10 base-T connection at the moment maybe
> > > > that has something to do with it.
> > >
> > > Did check. I'm check that later aswell.
> >
> > It autonegotiates 100Mbps FDX under solaris. The Linux driver doesn't report
> > the speed -- is there any way to obtain this information from ifconfig?
> >
> > There will be a message in dmesg and you may query (and even change)
> > the link state using 'ethtool'.
>
> I had the network engineer force the port to 10Meg HDX and it's working now
> (!) Hopefully I'll be able to get Debian installed on this system now.
Cool. I might just make the next set of Debian images force this down to
10mbs by default in the driver, until it gets resolved. Atleast this
way, the X1's can have an installtion path for now.
Guess I need to get the newest ethtool in there too :)
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