[plug] Network cards - FullSpeed

[WolfBite]

mii-tool
works on net cards
but not nvidia boards

WolfBite

--- Tim White <weirdo at tigris.org> wrote:

> I have a 3c59x network card that doesn't want to
> operate at full speed,
> full duplex.
> I have it compiled as a module for a 2.6.6 kernel
> and have used various
> options to try and get it to work.
> I have debug level at 3 and have tried the below
> options checking on the
> switch to see if it is in full duplex.
> options=12
> options=13
> options=0x204
> as well as various combinations of full_duplex=1
> I am not quite shore which I need, 100base-TX or
> 100base-FX. Ether Way I
> can't get it to go to full duplex. I know that with
> a 2.4 kernel I had
> it at full duplex full speed as I was getting VERY
> nice network speeds.
> Any ideas?
> Tim
> p.s. One of my speed measurement tests is to put it
> under load by doing 
> numerous ping floods simulatneously and monitoring
> the speed. I only get 
> around 2.5Mb/s and I know that a 100Mb network is
> capable of more. When 
> I ping flood from another computer it gets at least
> 4Mb/s (BTW, that is 
> MegaBits, not bytes). So is a 100Mb network capable
> of going higher? It 
> is on a switch
> 
> 
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