Re: Force Ethernet NIC to 10baseT
On Thursday 30 March 2006 10:17, Erik Dörnbach wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> at a site I have a debian sarge system with 3 NICs running as a firewall,
> 2x 3Com905 and 1x 3Com (dunno which exactly now) onboard. All three get
> recognized on bootup, share the 3c59x driver (found in the kernel I think)
> and can be configured without errors.
>
> One of the 905s serves as a connection to a duplicate machine in another
> building, some 150m down the road connected via some whacky telephone cable
> using 2 twisted pairs. This connection has been used with Ethernet and 2
> lame routers just before I put up the 2 debian servers, albeit possibly
> with 10baseT.
>
> Now I don't get a link on the NICs on both ends, let alone any network
> communication.
>
> What I think, I must force both NICs to 10baseT somehow, but I don't
> understand quite how to do that when I use 3 NICs in each machine sharing
> the same driver.
>
> I tried playing with the media option in /etc/network/interfaces, but to no
> avail, always giving out errors (not supported parameter and the like, not
> in front of that machine atm) upon networking restart...
>
> Ah yes, don't tell me to get a correct cable, I would do that also... but
> it worked before and it's not possible to dig up the whole street! :)
>
>
> Any clues and ideas are really welcome.
>
> Regards,
>
> Erik
Have you tried the 'mii-diag' command?
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Brian J. Schrock
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