How do I force the de4x5 driver to run full duplex?

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3 total messages Started by Reece Martin Fri, 02 Mar 2001 02:09

#92

Author: Reece Martin
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 02:09

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Re: DEC21142

I am using the same driver (de4x5) for the network card in my PWS500au. In
SRM I set ew0_mode to FASTFD, so the card is forced to run at 100Mb/s full
duplex. So when the machine starts up the LEDs on my switch show it is
running at 100Mb/s full duplex. Once Linux initialises the driver for eth0,
the card no longer is opertating at full duplex. This can be seen from my
mini switch diagnostic LEDs. Does anyone know how to force the driver to use
full duplex?

Thanks for any advice.

Regards,
Reece.

Re: How do I force the de4x5 driver to run full duplex?

#94

Author: Friedrich Seifert
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 11:33

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Hi,

Reece Martin wrote:
> 
> Re: DEC21142
> 
> I am using the same driver (de4x5) for the network card in my PWS500au. In
> SRM I set ew0_mode to FASTFD, so the card is forced to run at 100Mb/s full
> duplex. So when the machine starts up the LEDs on my switch show it is
> running at 100Mb/s full duplex. Once Linux initialises the driver for eth0,
> the card no longer is opertating at full duplex. This can be seen from my
> mini switch diagnostic LEDs. Does anyone know how to force the driver to use
> full duplex?

We had the same problem on our UP2000 boards. This is what helped in our
case:

In SRM type...
 
P00>>set ewa0_mode Auto-Negotiate

Regards,
	Friedrich

Re: How do I force the de4x5 driver to run full duplex?

#95

Author: Sander Rooijens
Date: Fri, 02 Mar 2001 18:53

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I had a network card that was autodetected by the Redhat setup to use the
de4x5 module
I couldn't get this card to work in fullduplex.

I changed to the tulip module instead and immediately the card
autonegotiated to fulldup.
Might work for your card too.

Best regards,

Sander


"Reece Martin" <reece.martin@bigpond.com> wrote in message
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> Re: DEC21142
>
> I am using the same driver (de4x5) for the network card in my PWS500au. In
> SRM I set ew0_mode to FASTFD, so the card is forced to run at 100Mb/s full
> duplex. So when the machine starts up the LEDs on my switch show it is
> running at 100Mb/s full duplex. Once Linux initialises the driver for
eth0,
> the card no longer is opertating at full duplex. This can be seen from my
> mini switch diagnostic LEDs. Does anyone know how to force the driver to
use
> full duplex?
>
> Thanks for any advice.
>
> Regards,
> Reece.
>
>

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