Greetings.

We just bought a bunch of 3Com Baseline 2824 and 2816-SFP Plus Switches
and 1000Base-SX SFP Fiber Optics modules.  We installed them a last
Friday, and boy have they improved our network performance.  Everything
is working a lot faster.

However, we have several LinkSys LNE100TX network cards with PXE eproms
from DisklessWorkstations.com that don't seem to like the new switches.
 All of the other workstations work fine.  These, however, boot up to
the point where it tries to mount nfs.  Then I get:

eth0: Setting full-duplex based on MII#1 link partner capability of c5e1.
nfs: server 192.168.1.6 not responding, still trying
nfs: server 192.168.1.6 not responding, still trying
nfs: server 192.168.1.6 not responding, still trying

And it just hangs.  /var/log/messages doesn't give any messages, either.

If I run these workstations through our old Netgear GS108 switches, they
work, albiet still slowly.

I've tried passing all sorts of different kernel parameters without any
success.  I've tried various combinations of the following:

MOPTS=nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048
NFSOPTS="-o nolock,ro,wsize=2048,rsize=2048"
NFSOPTS="-o nolock,ro,proto=tcp"
NFSOPTS="-o etx"
VID=1317 NIC=0985
NICOPT=options=5

I think it has to do with needing to pass the Tulip driver some
parameters, but I can't seem to figure out what.

Does anybody have any idea what might get these cards working again?

Any help will be appreciated very much.

With kind regards,

Peter, hieromonk

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