Well on my currernt network, we have a Cisco 100MB switch, and 3com 3c905C
cards in the PCs, the PCs take about a minute after card initialisation to
actually find the network, which under NT means you can't logon for a
minute, and Linux blocks before mounting the NFS drives....
I've tried Donald Becker and 3com drivers, and fecked with numerous
settings, I suspect the switch as my Xircom 100MB also takes a bit of
time to init....
Most bloody annoying...
Dave.
On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Niall O Broin wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 29, 2000 at 02:16:12PM +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
>> > Cards are getting confused in Auto-negotiation, just use the dosutils as
>> Is this confusion a common thing ? At a site I support the network has
> recently been upgraded from co-ax. to properly installed Cat-5, sockets, &
> patch panels. We've used two 10M hubs which were knocking around (because
> most of the kit is old and can't support 100M) and a new 100M switch to
> which we've connected the Linux boxes and the newer Macs which have 100M
> support.
>> Problem arose when a new G4 Mac was purchased. This will NOT work on the
> switch, although an iMac works fine. The Mac vendor brought in a 100M hub
> and the G4 works fine connected to the switch cascading through the hub. The
> Mac vendor (of course) claims that the switch must be faulty (despite the
> fact that everything else works fine with it, including the hub he brought -
> shades of "They're all out of step except my Johnny"). Now, I'm safely out
> of the loop here, not having supplied the networking kit, but I'm taking a
> little heat, and I'm just wondering if 10M/100M auto-negotiation problems
> are not unknown. The G4 works also with the old 10M hubs, so I'm presuming
> that what's failing is the speed negotiation G4 <-> switch.
>>> Regards,
>>>> Niall
>>
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