On Wed, 10 Jan 2001, Adrian Chung wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 06:37:22PM -0500, Adrian Chung wrote: > > Hi! I'm having trouble getting a D-Link DFE-530TX to work properly > > under 2.4.0. It's recognized properly, and I can get it to work with > > the via-rhine.o module... However, I'm seeing problems when using NFS > > with it. ... > I forced the module to load with options "full_duplex=1" and it now > works properly with NFS. > > Guess the autonegotiation is a little off? Hmmm, you forced full duplex and it now works properly... That means that the other end was in forced-full-duplex mode all along. That's a network configuration problem, not a driver problem. To avoid this problem in the future (and you _will_ have this problem again with forced-full-duplex) you should always leave autonegotiation enabled. If you have hardware with broken autonegotiation, such as Cisco switches, have them advertise only half duplex modes. The very minor performance difference from using half duplex mode will be more than repaid by having configuration problems like this in the future. Donald Becker becker@scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Second Generation Beowulf Clusters Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993 - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
