At 11:53 AM -0600 12/16/01, Stefan Jeglinski wrote:

I have a PowerPC 6500 with a Farallon 10/100 PCI card connected to a
Netgear 10/100 switch. I have never gotten this card to work right in
this box. If the number of packets is small, the connection seems to
work, but any increase in the number of packets (my theory) causes
the interface/NIC to choke up. I'm using 2.4.14 (bk).

[...]

I had the same problem with the Farallon 10/100 card in my 9600. It seemed
that either the driver or the chip weren't talking FDX properly - the card
worked flawlessly at 100/HDX.

I never figured out how to twiddle the duplex setting in the driver itself,
I usually ended up unplugging and replugging the ethernet cable a few times
until I confused the nway into thinking half-duplex is a good idea.

This was using the 'tulip' driver, iirc. I never had much luck with the
de4x5 driver. I haven't booted linux on my 9600 in a while, though, so
things might have improved since then.


Cheers - Tony 'Nicoya' Mantler :)


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