At 11:14 AM 4/16/2003, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 12:35:27PM +0300, Arto Huusko wrote:
> > I have some major problems using a DECchip 21140 NIC in an AlphaStation
> > 500/266 under 1.6P. (I've written about this earlier, too). I'm using
> > tlp driver, and here's what dmesg says about the card
> >
> > tlp1 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: DECchip 21140 Ethernet, pass 1.2
> > tlp1: interrupting at kn20aa irq 4
> > tlp1: DEC DE500-XA, Ethernet address 00:00:f8:30:28:35
> > tlp1: 10baseT, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 10baseT-FDX
>
>What does ifconfig -m say ?
>It's quite possible that this (quite old) adapter doesn't do n-way 
>negotiation,
>or doesn't do it properly. Or that it's just incompatible with this switch.

It doesn't do Nway.

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