[ILUG] Network cards not initialising

[Eoin Phillips]

On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 03:26:36PM +0100, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 
> > Cards are getting confused in Auto-negotiation, just use the dosutils as
> 
> Is this confusion a common thing ? At a site I support the network has
> recently been upgraded from co-ax. to properly installed Cat-5, sockets, &
> patch panels. We've used two 10M hubs which were knocking around (because
> most of the kit is old and can't support 100M) and a new 100M switch to
> which we've connected the Linux boxes and the newer Macs which have 100M
> support.
> 

I've certainly seen it before when a large network was upgraded from 10M
to 100M. The new (Cisco) switches were autosensing as were some of the
network cards. The solution depended on the network card. Some allowed you
to force them into 100MB mode using a DOS program (mainly 3coms), and
others required that you set options for the adapter in Network Control
Panel (highlight the adapter and click properties). On an NT network it
resulted in a user not being able to log-in for a minute or so (but the
attempts were treated as failed log-ins! - go figure)

Eoin