d-link dfe-500tx full-duplex issues?

[Joe Pruett]

we're seeing all kinds of late collisions emanating from this station,
which leads me to believe that it really isn't in full duplex mode.  i
probably need to remeasure things to make sure, since i have updated the
driver from 0.89.  but, since i didn't see the led come on, i assumed it
was still broken...

On Thu, 25 Mar 1999, Marko Engelmann wrote:
> 
> From: Marko Engelmann <ema@tesis.de>
> To: Joe Pruett <joey@q7.com>
> Cc: linux-tulip-bug@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov
> Subject: Re: d-link dfe-500tx full-duplex issues?
> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 1999 17:08:56 +0100 (MET)
> 
> On Wed, 24 Mar 1999, Joe Pruett wrote:
> 
> >running 0.90q with dual d-link dfe-500tx cards and even though the driver
> >claims it is turning on full duplex on the second card, it doesn't
> >actually go into full duplex (according to the leds).  unfortunately, the
> 
> As far as i know (according to the chip-layout), the additional led's are
> driven by free programmable (output-)pins on the dec-chip. So the driver
> has to switch the led's on and off. Until the driver doesn't do this...
> 
> My D-link-cards are working with full duplex, but the FD-light is still
> turned off ;-)
> 
> hth
> Marko
> 
> 
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