* Am Mit, 25 Jun 2003 schrieb Werner Gast: > Am Mit, 2003-06-25 um 10.11 schrieb Christoph Maurer: > > Nevertheless the problem does not occur when running a 2.4.18 on the > > laptop... > maybe the kernel/driver modules of different kernels use different > default values to initialize the NIC. You should never mix HD and FD > mode when using a HUB. By default a HUB works with HD only. > End of May and first days of june there were threads on the German > Users's Debian Mailing list [email protected] about > how to set up a Network Interface Card (NIC) with different speed > parameters.
I will have a look at these threads. > > > My idea is now to replace the hub with a switch. > This should always be a good a reasonable idea. But it is also a good > idea to learn more about your Debian Unix System and it's interaction > with your hardware. > man mii-diag will be your friend. I also tried mii-diag but my NIC is too old and does not support mii. I can use ne2k-pci-diag and get the info "Full Duplex Mode" forced. The ne2k-pci module has an option full_duplex=1 to enable FD but no one to disable it. And the documentation says that HD cannot be forced if the EEPROM is configured for FD Mode. Perhaps I should think about reconfiguring the EEPROM, but how? Probably you need MS-DOS and DOS drivers for that which I don't have. Thanks Christoph -- Christoph Maurer - http://www.christophmaurer.de mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tux# 194235
