Running Ubuntu 8.10 Beta Live CD. 3c905B connected to dumb 10/100 switch (it only has link lights - no speed lights) Card has LNK100 LED lit. Assuming we can believe the LED on the card, ethtool and "Connection Information - Active Network Connections" are misreporting the link speed as 10Mb/s.
$ uname -a Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-4-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 01:30:51 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux $ lspci 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30) $ sudo ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 10Mb/s Duplex: Half Port: MII PHYAD: 24 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Current message level: 0x00000001 (1) Link detected: yes $ sudo mii-tool -v eth0 eth0: link ok product info: vendor 00:00:00, model 0 rev 0 basic mode: autonegotiation enabled basic status: link ok capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD advertising: 100baseTx-FD 10baseT-FD -- 3c59x - 10/100 NIC fails to link to gigabit switch https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/94186 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs