On Sun, Aug 29, 2010, geoffrey mendelson wrote about "Re: Can there be an Ethernet Switch that doesn't work with Linux???": > My guess is that it's an autonegotation speed and or duplex problem. > Try setting the speed to 10mbit and the duplex to half.
It doesn't seem to be a negotiation problem - negotiation succeeded and settled on the expected 100 mbps full-duplex, and like I said a sniffer (on the Windows machine) showed that the DHCP and ARP requests from my Linux computer do travel on the network. > Make sure the cables are correct, not crossover cables. The switch > accomodates autosensing and will work with either, but the computer > may not. These are not cross cables, though like you said, even if they were they should have worked. The same cables with the switch replaced by a hub (or nothing) work. Obviously I also tried rotating the cables, and using different cables. > 10 year old switches generally did not support autosensing of cable > type, full duplex and many of them were only 10mbit. This is a brand new switch, which does support sensing of cable type. The switch is 100mbps and all computers attached to it actually have a gigabit NIC. Only the hub (which does work...) is 10 years old. -- Nadav Har'El | Sunday, Aug 29 2010, 19 Elul 5770 n...@math.technion.ac.il |----------------------------------------- Phone +972-523-790466, ICQ 13349191 |A thing is not necessarily true because a http://nadav.harel.org.il |man dies for it. - Oscar Wilde _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
