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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 46 Location: BC, Canada
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 8:17 pm Post subject: Stuck on 10BT |
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Hi everyone,
hoping you can help me with a little problem.
i'm using a 3Com 3c905b ethernet card and its stuck on 10BaseT mode and i can't change it, i've looked everywhere and i can't find anything that will help or i'am just too blind to see it.
and it's only in gentoo that i have this problem.
i've used FreeBSD, Lycoris, redhat, mandrake and none of them had this problem, and it's been like this everytime i've installed gentoo also.
please help, it very annoying transfering 1 gig files at 10 Mb/s as compared to 100 Mb/s (30 minutes or 3!) _________________ Required Reading list.
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pjp Administrator
Joined: 16 Apr 2002 Posts: 20067
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 8:25 pm Post subject: |
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ifconfig has a 'media type' option, though I've never used it. Quote: | media type
Set the physical port or medium type to be used by
the device. Not all devices can change this set-
ting, and those that can vary in what values they
support. Typical values for type are 10base2 (thin
Ethernet), 10baseT (twisted-pair 10Mbps Ethernet),
AUI (external transceiver) and so on. The special
medium type of auto can be used to tell the driver
to auto-sense the media. Again, not all drivers
can do this. |
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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 46 Location: BC, Canada
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rac Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 6553 Location: Japanifornia
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 8:56 pm Post subject: |
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See /usr/src/linux/Documentation/networking/vortex.txt. Compile it as a module, and pass "options=0x204" when the module is loaded. _________________ For every higher wall, there is a taller ladder |
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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
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pjp Administrator
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 10:20 pm Post subject: |
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MaD-DaRiUs wrote: | thats true but it only goes upto 10BT | I assumed more than 10BT would setable and the example didn't list everything. _________________ Quis separabit? Quo animo? |
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Kihaji Apprentice
Joined: 12 Sep 2002 Posts: 230
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 10:24 pm Post subject: |
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Can your hub/router do 100BT? If I remember correctly 3coms are auto-sensing and will do the highest speed they can. |
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pilla Bodhisattva
Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 7729 Location: Underworld
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Posted: Fri Oct 04, 2002 11:57 pm Post subject: |
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I would suggest to go to 3 COM website and get the utility floppies there for you 3com. Then, boot with it and you can properly configure and test it. |
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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 46 Location: BC, Canada
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Posted: Sat Oct 05, 2002 6:40 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | Can your hub/router do 100BT? If I remember correctly 3coms are auto-sensing and will do the highest speed they can.
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as i said earlyer it goes to 100BT in everything but gentoo.
Quote: | I would suggest to go to 3 COM website and get the utility floppies there for you 3com. Then, boot with it and you can properly configure and test it. |
that would be a great idea if it were possible to find anything on 3coms website
i've tried looking around on there site with no luck. _________________ Required Reading list.
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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:41 pm Post subject: Nevermind |
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BLARGH.
nevermind that it only worked once, now whenever i do it the link light just flashes rapidly and i lose network connectivity
Rac,
about your post earlyer when i put a line like this
Code: | options 3c59x options=0x204 |
into a file called 3c59x into my /etc/modules.d/ folder it doesn't work
what am i doing wrong?
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rac Bodhisattva
Joined: 30 May 2002 Posts: 6553 Location: Japanifornia
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 8:51 pm Post subject: Re: Nevermind |
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<flamebait>Get a cheap realtek and save yourself a lot of hassle</flamebait>
MaD-DaRiUs wrote: | Rac,
about your post earlyer when i put a line like this
Code: | options 3c59x options=0x204 |
into a file called 3c59x into my /etc/modules.d/ folder it doesn't work
what am i doing wrong? |
Are you sure it's compiled as a module and not into the kernel proper? You might also want to try switching cables. _________________ For every higher wall, there is a taller ladder |
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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
Joined: 21 Aug 2002 Posts: 46 Location: BC, Canada
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 9:45 pm Post subject: |
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yes yes i'am sure its a module, and no its not the cable it works fine in windows, and i have a bunch of old realtek cards lying around but this is a 3Com that cost my bro $80 some years ago and its worked faithfully until gentoo.
one thing im wondering though, is that the mii-tool worked once and got it to 100baseTx-FD but now it won't, maybe it needs another computer to negotiate with? i don't know im just running out of idea's here. |
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rac Bodhisattva
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 9:50 pm Post subject: |
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Which kernel sources are you using? If the answer is "gentoo", could I persuade you to try the vanilla sources to see if that improves anything? _________________ For every higher wall, there is a taller ladder |
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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
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MaD-DaRiUs n00b
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 10:48 pm Post subject: |
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Well i tried the vanilla sources and that didn't work, so i went to 3com's site and dug around for a while, found a piece of software called EtherCD which comes in two parts 1 is a load of drivers for all the windows version, 2 is a few drivers plus a configuration utility so i wrote the second part to a floppy and booted of a win boot disk(won't run in winxp of linux), and ran the util set it to 100baseTx-FD and when i reboot it still had the same problem. so i went back set EVERYTHING to auto and set it to "Best network performance" and reboot and it WORKED!! woohooooooo!!
so now i smack myself on the forhead(need an emote for that).
and bow down to Bloody Bastard
thanks a lot rac for all the help |
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pilla Bodhisattva
Joined: 07 Aug 2002 Posts: 7729 Location: Underworld
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Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2002 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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Those are the tools that I meant
MaD-DaRiUs wrote: | Well i tried the vanilla sources and that didn't work, so i went to 3com's site and dug around for a while, found a piece of software called EtherCD which comes in two parts 1 is a load of drivers for all the windows version, 2 is a few drivers plus a configuration utility so i wrote the second part to a floppy and booted of a win boot disk(won't run in winxp of linux), and ran the util set it to 100baseTx-FD and when i reboot it still had the same problem. so i went back set EVERYTHING to auto and set it to "Best network performance" and reboot and it WORKED!! woohooooooo!!
so now i smack myself on the forhead(need an emote for that).
and bow down to Bloody Bastard
thanks a lot rac for all the help |
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meyer37 n00b
Joined: 04 Feb 2003 Posts: 41 Location: Milwaukee, WI
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Posted: Wed May 14, 2003 5:23 pm Post subject: options command worked for 3c905c |
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I just want to added to this post that I was experiencing the same problems with a 3c905c card.
The fix:
1) Loaded as a module
(M) 3C59x in kernel
2) Append to the 3c59x in modules.autoload options=0x204
***note I also added debug=2 to the modules.autoload inorder to check the status of the card in my logs. |
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