Thinking of building a Beowulf are we?<g>
OK your 100 machines are likely to talk to each other at 100, but only at 10 to
the 10s. If all your equipment were 100, then it would be indicative of a problem
to see 100s running at 10.
3Com are usually solid cards. My main problem with them has been "short
fingers." Apparently they have discovered how to use less gold on the contacts,
by making them just slightly shorter, or so my calipers say. This leads to
non-recognition and/or intermittents unless your case is NOT warped and the tech
assembling the machine took a little extra care seating the cards.
The 3Com Drivers are very mature and unlikely to be the source of problems. The
Dell case is to others what a tank is to automobiles, so case warpage is unlikely
to be a problem. Ummm, might try reseating the card. You may see it on
autodetect as a 3C590 or 3C905 ... those are both 10/100 types. Both those are
PCI types If it is an ISA card, well.... You have an issue with the salesman.
Civileme
Sean McMains wrote:
> I've got two machines running at 100, three running at 10. The hub is a
> 10/100 switch. The card is whatever came in this used Dell I got. Lemme
> see...it's a 3Com of some sort. Is that any help? Is there some place to
> look for Ethernet card settings?
>
> Sean
>
> > Well, what is the rest of the network running at? Is the hub capable of 100?
> > What about the other machines?
> >
> > Which card is it? Many have autoswitching capability but not all.
> >
> > Civileme
> >
> > Sean McMains wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> When I first fired up the machine, Linux detected the Ethernet card and used
> >> it fine. The card was sold to me as a 10/100BT, but Linux is only using it
> >> as a 10. Is there some setting I should fiddle with, or was I misled?
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance for any info!
> >> Sean
> >
> > --
> > Rejoice, the wait for Windows 2000 is over!
> > http://www.ms-windows-2000.com/
> >
> >
> >
> >
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