Yeah. The last time this happened, the full-duplex light was lite for this user but he was having all kinds of networking problems. I set it to half duplex in Network Neighborhood. The full-duplex light went out and he is a happy camper. I'll replace the NIC the next time I have an excuse to get into his computer.
Cory Petkovsek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: > >Alot of switches have a full-duplex light which illuminates when this is >enabled on the attached nic. For that matter, a lot of nics have a full >duplex light on them. I usually use 3com 3c905 nics and they have >always defaulted to full duplex mode. In one instance the card had been >set on a windows machine to half. I used the vortex (3c905) utility >from this guy on linux to flip the bit back. > >Cory > >On Sun, Dec 22, 2002 at 05:14:10PM +0000, Bob Crandell wrote: >> Cool. I've seen cards that are supposed be able to do full-duplexing but are >> actually slower (the advertising lied). This could tune cards where they perform >> the best, whether it's a "faster" setting or "slower". >> >> Cooper Stevenson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote*: >> > >> >All, >> > >> >Some of you remember the days when we could set the Ethernet device's >> >EEPROM flags with a DOS-based utility. Well, here's a collection of >> >Ethernet device utilities for Linux: >> > >> > http://www.scyld.com/diag/index.html#mii-diag >> > >> >I greatly improved network transfer speed on the internal subnet hosts >> >by using the mii-diag utility to set the devices to full-duplex. A side >> >benefit of this is that my NFS clients are more responsive during heavy >> >load as they are not working so hard on the Ethernet transfer. >> > >> >Note that mii-diag worked on both the Tulip and the RealTek without >> >modification. Several other models are supported. >> > >> > >> >-Cooper >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >_______________________________________________ >> >Eug-LUG mailing list >> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >> > >> >> -- >> Bob Crandell >> Assured Computing >> When you need to be sure. >> Voice 541-689-9159 >> FAX 240-371-7237 >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> www.assuredcomp.com >> Eugene, Or. 97402 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Eug-LUG mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug >_______________________________________________ >Eug-LUG mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug > -- Bob Crandell Assured Computing When you need to be sure. Voice 541-689-9159 FAX 240-371-7237 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.assuredcomp.com Eugene, Or. 97402 _______________________________________________ Eug-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
