[vortex] Lot of colliosions; 3c905B running FD?

[Karl Erik Øyøygard]

Hi!

I hope this is the right list...

I have a lot of collisions on my small network. Everything is working, but
slow. I see there are no collisions reported on my 3c905, even though it is
(set to) running half duplex. Is there a problem setting FD/HD on 3c905B?

This is my setup:
HUB: 8TP + 1BNC
"ISDN router": 2.2.15, 3c503 on coax
"System1": 2.2.17, 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo, TP
"System2": 2.2.17pre20, 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx, TP

This is what worries me (look at the collisions):

System1:
oyoy@lab:~$ /sbin/ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:D7:20:E8  
          inet addr:10.0.1.3  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3974565 errors:26822 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:50286
          TX packets:5311825 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:207528
          collisions:212684 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6100

System2:
bash-2.03$ /sbin/ifconfig 
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:04:63:95:A2  
          inet addr:10.0.1.10  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:22005515 errors:727824 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1103272
          TX packets:15474808 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xa000 


Could it be my 3c905 is running FD? 

Pleace excuse me if I'm on the wrong list,
and CC: me if I'm not...

Thanks!

-OYOY-

- I attach additional info, pleace tell me if you need more!
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System 1:

dmesg:
3c59x.c:v0.99H 12Jun00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c900 Boomerang 10Mbps Combo at 0x6100,  00:a0:24:d7:20:e8, IRQ 10
  8K word-wide RAM 3:5 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/10baseT interface.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
via-rhine.c:v1.01 2/27/99  Written by Donald Becker
  http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/via-rhine.html

ifconfig:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:A0:24:D7:20:E8  
          inet addr:10.0.1.3  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:3981466 errors:26822 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:50286
          TX packets:5319980 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:207579
          collisions:212744 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6100 

lab:~# mii-tool -v
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
  product info: vendor 00:00:3f, model 63 rev 15
  basic mode:   10 Mbit, half duplex
  basic status: autonegotiation complete, remote fault, link ok
  capabilities: 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
  advertising: 
  link partner: 100baseT4 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD flow-control
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System 2:

dmesg:
3c59x.c 16Aug00 Donald Becker and others http://www.scyld.com/network/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xa000,  00:50:04:63:95:a2, IRQ 17
  8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
  MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
  Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
eth0: Overriding PCI latency timer (CFLT) setting of 0, new value is 32.

ifconfig:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:50:04:63:95:A2  
          inet addr:10.0.1.10  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:22016646 errors:727912 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:1103403
          TX packets:15484562 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:17 Base address:0xa000 

mii-tool
eth0: 10 Mbit, half duplex, link ok
  product info: vendor 00:10:18, model 18 rev 0
  basic mode:   10 Mbit, half duplex
  basic status: link ok
  capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
  advertising:  100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
  link partner: 10baseT-HD