I have an Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 16 bit combo card. I am testing it on various 10baseT hubs and with a crossover cable directly to 100 Mbit cards.
It works fine if both cards are set to 10baseT-HD (for instance with D Becker's mii-diag program, or through autonegotiation). I can pretty much saturate the link. However at 10baseT-FD, I get only about 100 KB/s (instead of 800 or 900). Also at 100baseTx I either get 100KB/s (talking to a card using the rtl8139 driver) or nothing at all (talking to a DLink card that uses via-rhine driver ). mii-diag shows that the cards are reading each other's beat frequencies and they negotiate fine. But if they negotiate for, or I force, 100baseTx (HD or FD) it doesn't work. Again, if I force 10baseT-HD I get about 800 KB/s. I have only tried one crossover cable so far. I have not really tested the modem, but it dials OK. I am running a current Debian potato on a new Sager 3550 notebook. I am running kernel 2.2.14. I have compiled all the pcmcia stuff myself. I tried various recent pcmcia-cs and module versions, and a few recent versions of the via-rhine driver. (I have tried the latest stable and unstable versions, if available, from the authors' websites). Anyone have a clue what is going on ? Thanks, John P.S. Second problem: The kernel clock seems to run ~ 1% slow. And there may be other clock problems. /proc/cpuinfo sometimes gets the clockspeed at 377 MHz instead of 500MHz (this chip is not supposed to support multiple speeds) -- John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson,AZ http://www.physics.arizona.edu/~lapeyre
