Re: link-up link-down ethernet switch tale of woe

2010-02-02 Thread Tony Nelson
On 10-02-02 03:23:31, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 2/2/2010 12:11 AM: > ... > > ...25.0006 MHz crystal. ... ... > ... I'm sure the system design tolerance is much greater than > 0.0006%. ... Me too, but (25.0006/25.0 - 1.0)*100.0 = .0024%. Googling shows that the I

Re: link-up link-down ethernet switch tale of woe

2010-02-02 Thread Stan Hoeppner
bri...@aracnet.com put forth on 2/2/2010 12:11 AM: > I take the linksys apart, and here's where things get kind of > interesting. Those of you who have any hardware experience with > ethernet phy's are probably aware that they typically use a 25MHz clock. > This crazy piece of dung has a 25.0006

link-up link-down ethernet switch tale of woe

2010-02-01 Thread briand
Thought I would post this to debian as someone on the list or out there in the webiverse might find it useful. My story begins with an Intel MB with Realtek R8169 ethernet device, an MPC55 nvidia ethernet device on a different PC and, finally, what turns out to be a piece of sh*t linksys ethernet