In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Lee Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 12:20 -0800, Ben Greear wrote: >> What happens if you just don't muck with the NIC and let it auto-negotiate >> on it's own? > >This can be asking for trouble too (auto negotiation is often buggy). >What if you hard set them both to 100/full?
If you do that you also need to force the switchports to full duplex. Lots of switches default to half-duplex without auto-negotiation. Mike. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/