On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Guðmundur Erlingsson wrote: > > I'm trying to get a 3com card working (3c574), and the pcmcia-package finds > it ok and loads the appropriate driver, but then comes this: > > eth0: found link beat > eth0: link partner did not autonegotiate > eth0: lost link beat > eth0: autonegotiation restarted > > and so on, until it gives up. Does anyone know what's happenin'? I can't > find anything about this in the docs nor on the internet. > the only autonegotiation I know of is when the ethernet card tries to work out whether it is on a 10Mbps lan or a 100Mbps lan. If I remember there is a command that you can pass to the pcmcia ethernet driver that "forces" a 10 or 100 speed connection. What this is I do not know though, search through the pcmcia source documentation, failing that deja or google, or if you are really desperate the *actual* source code for the driver
Alex
