Hi, I have a NetGear EA201 network card in an old machine, and I suddenly need to be able to switch this device into 'half-duplex' mode. (I have an ethernet broadband router whose firmware update process fails unless it's talking half-duplex.) I have discovered ethtool, but the Linux NE/8390 driver doesn't support it. Is the 8390 chip(?) sufficiently well understood to allow me to write a rudimentary duplex-switching IOCTL for the EA201 adapter? I'm assuming that such a thing doesn't exist already only because no-one cared enough to write it. Would writing it now require extra information from NetGear? Judging from the Win95 properties page for this adapter, this card supports both choosing full/half duplex modes and setting the MAC(?) address. Can you help me to write a small patch for this driver, please? Thanks, Chris ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
