On Wed Feb 09 2000 at 16:56, John Murtari wrote:
> Folks,
>
> We had been using tomsrtbt with no problems on a couple
> of Gateway fileservers which have the 3Com 3c905 Boomerang
> card. The default disk worked fine and our switch showed
> the machine connecting at 100Mbs and Full Duplex.
>
> We just installed a Dell Poweredge Server, the default disk
> works fine in bringing up the system and scsi disks as before;
> however -- when the rc.custom calls for the ifconfig of eth0,
> we see that the switch shows the port speed dropping to 10Mbs,
> and loss of Full Duplex.
I have had exactly the same problems (with almost exactly the same
hardware - Dell pe server with hardware megaraid-5 [nice!!] but with
3c509B "cyclone" cards, on a 100Mb full duplex network running from a
cisco hub).
I can't recall the details (it was almost a year ago), but you have to
pass the appropriate parameters for the ethernet driver to the kernel
via the lilo boot prompt. However, I also seem to recall that I had
to do something else in the default rtbt startup as something else was
over-riding the setting to put the driver back into 10mb half-duplex.
Get the ethernet params from the various HOWTOs (net-3/4, bootprompt,
and so on) and the /usr/src/doc/linux/Documentation/networking/
directory.
There's a lot to be said about having as many drivers as possible
available as loadable modules... it makes it almost trivial to load
and unload them with different operating parameters at runtime, rather
than having to reboot and then supply the options you want to use.
> Looked at the modules listing at www.toms.net/rb/addons -- and
> weren't sure what to try?
They are needed for using hardware when the driver hasn't been
compiled into the kernel itself.
> Many thanks!
Hope this helps...
Cheers
Tony
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