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Pepe

2006-08-07, 7:19 am

Which driver and parameters would put this card in 100Mb-mode? I only
get 10Mb (according to router led).


lspci:
01:0a.0 Ethernet Controller: Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140
[FasterNet] (rev 22)
Dances With Crows

2006-08-07, 1:17 pm

On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:17:20 GMT, Pepe staggered into the Black Sun and
said:
> Which driver and parameters would put this [DEC Tulip 21140] in
> 100Mb-mode? I only get 10Mb (according to [the] router LED).
> Digital Equipment Corporation DECchip 21140 [FasterNet] (rev 22)


This card isn't MII-capable AFAICT, which is annoying. I have a similar
card in my desktop at home, but it has 2 RJ-45 jacks: One for 10bT, one
for 100bT. drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c says you'd feed it
"args=100Mb,fdx" for 100bT full-duplex operation. Try it and see what
you get? HTH,

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Pepe

2006-08-08, 7:19 am

Dances With Crows wrote:

>On Mon, 07 Aug 2006 09:17:20 GMT, Pepe staggered into the Black Sun and
>said:
>
>
>
>This card isn't MII-capable AFAICT, which is annoying. I have a similar
>card in my desktop at home, but it has 2 RJ-45 jacks: One for 10bT, one
>for 100bT. drivers/net/tulip/de4x5.c says you'd feed it
>"args=100Mb,fdx" for 100bT full-duplex operation. Try it and see what
>you get? HTH,
>
>
>

No luck yet
Above param format is not accepted, but:
insmod de4x5 args='autosense=TP autosense=100Mb' goes without error
messages and
then dmesg contains ao.:
eth0: media is 100Mb/s
eth0 media is TP.
- BUT - the LED says 10Mb...



dion_b

2006-08-14, 7:15 pm

> No luck yet Above param format is not accepted, but:
> insmod de4x5 args='autosense=TP autosense=100Mb' goes without error
> messages and
> then dmesg contains ao.:
> eth0: media is 100Mb/s
> eth0 media is TP.
> - BUT - the LED says 10Mb...


Have you considered the possibility that the LED for 100Mb is dead?

One way to check is to connect it to another device which is known to do
100Mb and see if it can communicate at 100Mb with this Tulip. If it can,
ignore the LED...


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