This is a "stupid" question.. > I have a 3C905c NIC connected to a cable modem. The NIC of the cable-modem > is 10Mbit. In autonegotiaton mode the 3c905c and the cable modem end up in > a dead lock. > > Now I want to force the 3com card to switch to 10 Mbit/s. So.. I believe your NIC is 10/100Mbit ? When connecting to the Cable modem autonegotiation locks it up right? So.. you want to Force the NIC to _always_ be in 10MBit/s? Did I get that right? Cheers, Mun Heng, Ow H/M Engineering Western Digital M'sia DID : 03-7870 5168 -----Original Message----- From: Klaasjan Brand [mailto:kjb@xxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 4:18 PM To: shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: 3COM NIC speed limiter wanted On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 20:12, A.J. Werkman wrote: > Hi, > > I have a 3C905c NIC connected to a cable modem. The NIC of the cable-modem > is 10Mbit. In autonegotiaton mode the 3c905c and the cable modem end up in > a dead lock. > > Now I want to force the 3com card to switch to 10 Mbit/s. From the > vortex.txt file in the kernel docs I thought to read that I have to give > the "option=0" parameter to the 3c59x module. But this doesn't seem to slow > down the 3com NIC. Just checked since it's working for me: the correct parameter is "options=0" (not "option")... Klaasjan -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list -- Shrike-list mailing list Shrike-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/shrike-list
