stuck in 10mbps

DntKnwHw · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Philippines

hi!

athlonxp 3200 w/ integrated nvidia lan
celeron 1100 w/ intel 8225x lan
20m cat5 e crossover

my network fine at 10mbps but when i set my speed to 100mbps full/half i dont have a working network anymore! any help here! i suspect its the cable!

any idea? thanks!!

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 10:20 am Post subject:

DntKnwHw,

Any kinks in the cable may damage the conductor seperation and reduce the useful data rate. Running it very close to the mains supply doesn't help either. Cat 5e should be OK for 1000Mbit if its installed properly.

What driver as you useing at the intel end?
I couldn't spot that in the 2.6.3 kernel. Does that chip set support 100Mbit ?
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DntKnwHw · n00b Joined: 14 Aug 2003 Posts: 74 Location: Philippines

well im using e100 for the intel! thanks for the tip! i try to find any kinks!
and for nvidia forcedeth

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 12:04 pm Post subject:

DntKnwHw,

I'm happy that both ends of the link can do 100Mb. They should autonegiotiate 100Mb full duplex too, unless you load the drivers with module parameters that force some other mode. Doing that at one end will cause the other end to fall into line.

That e100 driver is the intel one. There is an alternate module, called eepro100 that you could try. You can build them both as modules then use modprobe to switch between them. Only have one loaded at a time.
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