On Sat, 28 Jul 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 02:53:08AM +0200, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Craig Ian Dewick wrote: > > > On Sun, 29 Jul 2001, Guenter Millahn wrote: > > > > > > > I have an Sun SPARC Ultra-80 running Debian/woody together with an older > > > > switch (LattisSwitch 28115 by Bay Networks). > > > > The Workstation has a standard hme (happy meal) network card. > > > > > > > > Something with the autonegotiation doesn't work, probably because of the > > > > age of the switch. I have configured 100 Mb/sec full-duplex on the > > > > switch, but the Debian box falls back to 100 Mb/sec half-duplex. Another > > > > effect on this box: After a reboot of the switch the connection is down > > > > until I remove the plug from the switch and plug in it again. > > > > > > It also depends what you're connecting it to. If it's a network hub > > > (without the intelligence of a switch) it'll always default to > > > half-duplex. If it's connected to a switch (whether it be a level 2 or a > > > level 3 switch) it should default to full-duplex. At least that's how it > > > behaves with Solaris, and the limited experience I've had with > > > Debian/Sparc shows the same result. > > > > The switch is a level 2, 100Mb/sec, with full-duplex capabilities from the > > early days of FastEthernet networking. But the main question for me is, how > > to > > force the debian woody box to go to 100 MBit full duplex mode? > > You have to use the ethtool program. If that doesn't work (as in it > gives you some weird ioctl errors), I'll have to get you an updated > version since that would mean you are using a 2.4.x kernel :)
That did the job! Thank you. Indeed I have the 2.4.5 kernel. I grabbed the current version from sourceforge and built it. Will make a source package and submit it to the maintainer. Thanks again, says a lucky Guenter
