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Old 09-12-2001, 05:02 PM   #1
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ethernet at half duplex


My two ethernet cards on my gateway are both running at half duplex only.

demsg | tail says:

eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000.

the leds on both cards are permanently off.

anythign i can do to bring my network back to a useful thoughout?

is it any likelier to work with a nice new fresh distro installed? (i'm looking for reasons to put MD80 on my gateway instead of rh71...
 
Old 09-12-2001, 09:14 PM   #2
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Are they connected to something running full duplex? Like not a Hub

If so I'm all out of ideas
 
Old 09-13-2001, 02:25 AM   #3
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well i had one card at full speed, but then i added a second indentical card to the machine, and both run at half now... even when i take down one interface
 
Old 09-13-2001, 02:48 AM   #4
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Are they connected to something running full duplex? Like not a Hub
To echo Q25 - they are on a switch or two cross-over cables yeah?

cheers

Jamie...
 
Old 09-13-2001, 02:04 PM   #5
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Sorry.. yes it's two separate cables,*two NIC's and a different single machine at the end of each one.
 
Old 09-13-2001, 02:26 PM   #6
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Uhm... Stranger and stranger...

What are the two cards? What Kernel you running? Post the contents of /proc/pci , /proc/interrupts & /proc/ioports maybe it'll give someone a hint. The other thing you might want to try doing is reading up on the code for you NIC and seeing how to force full-duplex, the driver may just default to half-duplex if more than 1 card is present for some strange reason (maybe just to confuse people!! )

cheers

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