On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, John Lapeyre wrote: > ( Sorry about the poor quoting. I am reading web > archives of the lists and cutting and pasting) > (please CC me)
Well, I have to survive on a daily basis emails sent to me by management types using Outlook, so this mail looks fine to me :) > I still can't get the laptop to communicate with the > DFE 530 Tx (uses via-rhine), except when they are set > to 10baseT. Perhaps it is a problem with the via-rhine driver. > (I tried several versions of the driver). > tcpdump shows that, for instance, the laptop will send > and receive packets at 100baseT, but the via-rhine card will > only send and not recieve. The debugging option shows that > the netdev_rx routine in via-rhine.c is never entered, so > presumably the interrupt status register is not being set or > read correctly. (but the light on the via-rhine card flashes). Does that via-rhine card communicate correctly with other NIC's, and is it tested with different network cables (CAT5 or better) and decent HUBs/switches ?? > >Well, rememeber that a 16 bit PCMCIA bus can be compared with ISA > >speeds... and that's just enough to handle 10base networks. > I didn't know it was that bad. Well, I don't have any exact data, but it's about the same level. > > You do know that using Full Duplex with a HUB isn't going to work ?? > No, I didn't. But it has been failing with a crossover cable, > as well. But I wonder if there is more than one way to build a cable > or if this one is defective. I only paid attention to anything to do > with network hardware very recently. A crossover cable should work at FD, but I haven't tested that much with crossover cables myself. -- Tot ziens, Bart-Jan
