Have you tried forcing the media type to 100/full using ifconfig?  Also
try specifying auto just to see what happens.  I have had 3com cards
(among others) that sometimes will do that, and they just need to be told
what to do.

- Ralph

On 25 Oct 2001, Woody Green wrote:

> I have two different types of cards (realtek using the 8139too driver
> and an intel using the eepro100 driver) that only work when attached to
> 10Mbit hubs.  Attach them to 100Mbit switches and they quit working with
> no apparent errors.
>
> It would seem to be in the network subsystem of the kernel or in a part
> of the driver common to all affected cards I've tried.  I've swapped
> absolutely everything (different mainboards, replaced initially
> installed network cards, different switches, wires, etc...) and
> duplicated the results on someone else's machines and network.  The only
> commonality is that all machines were using various AMD processors and
> use MDK 8.1 tried with both the stock 2.4.8-26mdk and cooker's
> 2.4.12-3mdk kernels.
>
> Anyone else have this problem and/or a possible solution?  This is
> unfortunately a show stopper.  I was about to upgrade our office's 8.0
> machines (workstations and server) to 8.1 when this problem arose.
>
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