Re: [SLUG] Full or half duplex eth

[chesty <chesty@nospam.zip.com.au>]

On Fri, Dec 03, 1999 at 11:39:15AM +1100, Rodney Haywood wrote:

 
> eth0: 3Com 3c905B Cyclone 100baseTx at 0xdc00,  00:c0:4f:68:78:56, IRQ 19
>   8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
>   MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
>   Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
> 
> So does anyone know anything about full/half duplex and how to set/detect it
> in Linux?

With my cards I had to use the dos/windows setup program to change
the duplex settings. Also check the kernel source for your driver,
which is think is /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/3c59x.c

It looks like your card is setup for automagically selecting 10/100
full/half duplex, I don't know how you would find out what it
selected, though. If ifconfig reports some collisions, then I think
its safe to say you are in half duplex mode, because full duplex
disables collision detect.


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	chesty

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