[Haifux] Re: OT: Strange network cable problem (fwd)

[Alon Altman]

> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001, Alon Altman wrote about "Re: OT: Strange network cable 
>problem":
> > On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Nadav Har'El wrote:
> > > You can try setting the network cards on both sides to 10Mb, and see if
> > > the communication now works: 10Mb is more tolorant to relatively-small noise
> > > on the line. You can also try "playing" with the wire, perhaps moving the
> >
> > OK - How do I do that in Linux?
>
> Last time I checked, inconfig's "media" option did not work in Linux, and
> I had to pass an option to the driving while loading it with insmod.
> Because the driver wasn't documented anywhere, I had to find out this option
> by reading its source... Which driver are yo using? (see lsmod and/or dmesg)
>
> For example, the eepro100 driver which I use accepts the parameter "option=.."
> with the ".." being an ugly bitfield specifing things like duplex and speed.
> If you have eepro100, try "options=112" for half-duplex 10Mb/s. (this is not
> documented anywhere I could find - I just read the source code...)
>
> Is there a saner way to do this? Maybe even after a driver is loaded (like
> I remember used to work in BSD Unix)? Does the 'media' ifconfig option
> perhaps work for some of the drivers?

  My driver is 'tulip'. I also have a driver supplied by the manufacturer on
the diskette.

  Alon

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