At 11:05 AM 2/24/2000 -0800, Jon Rust wrote:
>At 1:03 AM -0500 2/18/00, Will Saxon wrote:
>>What was the problem? I had a problem once doing the same thing with mine,
>>but it was user error - the other side was 100mbit full duplex and I had
>>forgotten to enable full-duplex. REALLY slow :P.
>
>This is why I won't use 10/100 Intel cards. I've had numerous problems
>with them and my cisco cat 2924. They really don't seem to like talking to
>another auto-negotiating device. I end up having to manually set one side
>(or both) to get it to work. An unnecessary pain in the arse if you ask
>me. It's been a while since I tried, so maybe it was a driver issue and
>was fixed. For my money, the Kingston kne100tx's work fine, and the
>lne100tx's from Linksys do as well. No superlatives, they just work.
YMMV. In my office we had a Catalyst (5000?) that wouldn't auto-negotiate
with TI Thunderlan NICs, but does fine with Intel and 3Com.
Jim
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