Package: kernel Severity: normal
unabel to get 3com 3c509b interface to operate at 100/full-duplex. It only works at 10/half-duplex. Tried 3com recomended driver 3c509 and it failed to install with fatal errors when I ran modprobe on it. After reinstalling the standard debian driver 3c59x the interface came up at 100/full-duplex. Rebooted the machine and problem went back to eth0 would only work at 10/half-duplex. Found documentation in /etc/src/linux-2.6.31.6/Documentation that stated the 3c509b interface did not auto negotiate well and should be set to 100/full no autoneg. Set the switch port to 100/full. Again rebooted the machine and symptoms were the same, eth0 only works at 10/ half-duplex. removed the driver and reinstalled it and then eth0 came up at 100/full-duplex. Then added the following commands to /etc/rc.local to get the interface up at 100/full-duplex at boot: /etc/init.d/networking stop sleep 4 modprobe -r 3c59x sleep 4 modprobe 3c59x sleep 4 ethtool -s eth0 autoneg off speed 100 duplex full sleep 4 /etc/init.d/networking start sleep 4 Note the sleep commands were added when the commands worked when typed at the command line but failed in the script. At this point I have a viable workaround as illustrated above but I thought you would want to know that the driver does not initialize properly at boot up time. -- System Information: Debian Release: 5.0.3 APT prefers stable APT policy: (500, 'stable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.31.6 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
