[vortex] Vortex driver bug?

[Donald Becker]

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, LupusNebula wrote:

> Wonder if you could help me. I have installed Xp and RH 8 on a Dell 
> i8200 Laptop.
> 
> I am experiencing problems in Linux with the network driver. IP packets 
> are transmitted 100% but not all are received. I think it has to do with 
> the Full/Half Duplex modes.
> It seems that if  "autonegotiate" mode is set, the driver does not 
> handle receiving packets, in my case as "half duplex".
> I have set the full_duplex=0 parameter/option in modules.conf, but it 
> has no effect.
> 
> Here is more information :
> 
> Driver : 3Com3c590/3c595/3c90x/3cx980

What driver version?
What is the detection message?

Are you setting any driver options?


> mii-tool  results

Please send the 'mii-diag' output.

> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:08:74:E7:31:F8       
> inet addr:80.218.104.133  Bcast:255.255.255.255  Mask:255.255.252.0
> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> RX packets:24599 errors:34 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:60
> TX packets:149 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:1531994 (1.4 Mb)  TX bytes:10870 (10.6 Kb)
> Interrupt:11 Base address:0xec80

It appears that you have the driver set to forced full duplex, while the
remote machine is in half duplex mode.  What is the link partner
(switch/hub type?).

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