Re: 3com NIC problems with interface configuration

From: Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Date: Fri May 12 2000 - 07:23:36 EST


ferret@phonewave.net writes:
> I installed BeOS 5 PE on the system, and that OS also drops the card to
> 10bT during configuration.

I've upgraded to a Cyclone card, and recently changed the hub to a 10/100
switching version. One thing that I did notice is that the Cyclone card
will not automatically re-negotiate its speed once its dropped into 10base
mode.

Unfortunately, the driver doesn't accept the ifconfig media command
(SIOCSIFMAP, dev->set_config), so if the driver is a module, you need
to remove/reload it. If its in the kernel, you need to reboot the
machine.

It would be nice to be able to configure the media type with ifconfig.
(maybe this is a feature addition in 2.3 that got overlooked by a lot
of the net drivers and no one knows about it?)
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