Don't know if this is any help, but here goes.
In my experience with multispeed NICs under Linux, I have found that some
drivers do a poor job of link speed autonegotiation (the xirc2ps driver for
Xircom PCMCIA cards is one of them). I cannot tell you if I am doing
something wrong or not, I just don't have good luck with this.
I have also found that some "dual-speed" hubs (2 port bussed Ethernet
switches in reality) do a poor job of working with a NIC card that is trying
to autonegotiate, leaving the "hub" at one speed and the NIC at another
(sometimes even lighting the link light erroneously).
>From your symptom my guess is that you are using a 10mb hub and the card is
trying for 100mb. Figure out how to get Linux to force the card to 10mb and
try again. If you are using a "dual-speed" hub, try forcing the NIC to 100mb
first then try 10mb.
Hope I can help, I am much better at layers 1-3 than I am at Linux.
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2000 12:15 PM
To: Mandrake 'expert' mail
Subject: [expert] etho transmit timeout
Hi all:
Installing Mandrake 6.1
NIC is Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet Adapter(NC100) from LinkSys.
Installation detects a DEC tulip card.
When the machine boots the log says ok when bringing up eth0 but the LED on
the hub turns off for that connection.
Then the machine repeatedly displays
'eth0: transmit timed out, status e4260000, CRS12 000000ce, resetting...'
This is a connection that would ping between windoze/windoze,
FreeBSD/FreeBSD,
or windoze/FreeBSD.
Pointers, please.
TIA
Bill Barnes
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