dtrace discuss - Jun 2005 - [osol-discuss] Re: Re: Re: b17 copying behaviour?

On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, [UTF-8] J?rgen Keil wrote:
>>> Quite a few people have reported full duplex problems with the elxl
>>> driver; maybe there''s a bug somewhere in the elxl driver
with full/half
>>> duplex negotiation?
>>
>> I have tried forcing half duplex 100Mbps in /kernel/drv/elxl.conf, but
it
>> didn''t help. With the old card I remember even booting DOS and
using
>> some dos based 3com utility to change mode to half duplex.
>
> Yep. AFAIR, it''s 3C90XCFG.EXE
OK, to recapitulate: I have managed to find an old floppy with the above 
utility (btw, volcheck didn''t react to floppies on my machine here),
and
after changing (and hard-coding) it to half-duplex 100Mbps and booted back 
in solaris, it works fine. NFS copy (and dd) works fine, there are no 
carrier_errors and everything seem to work fine.

We need to fix 3com network driver.

Thanks for all the help and bye, Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic,

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Dragan Cvetkovic <opensolaris.src at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 30 Jun 2005, [UTF-8] J?rgen Keil wrote:
>
> >>> Quite a few people have reported full duplex problems with the
elxl
> >>> driver; maybe there''s a bug somewhere in the elxl
driver with full/half
> >>> duplex negotiation?
> >>
> >> I have tried forcing half duplex 100Mbps in /kernel/drv/elxl.conf,
but it
> >> didn''t help. With the old card I remember even booting
DOS and using
> >> some dos based 3com utility to change mode to half duplex.
> >
> > Yep. AFAIR, it''s 3C90XCFG.EXE
>
> OK, to recapitulate: I have managed to find an old floppy with the above 
> utility (btw, volcheck didn''t react to floppies on my machine
here), and
> after changing (and hard-coding) it to half-duplex 100Mbps and booted back 
> in solaris, it works fine. NFS copy (and dd) works fine, there are no 
> carrier_errors and everything seem to work fine.
>
> We need to fix 3com network driver.
Did you try to load the binary driver that is on the 3com web server?


J?rg

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On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Dragan Cvetkovic <opensolaris.src at gmail.com> wrote:
>> We need to fix 3com network driver.
>
> Did you try to load the binary driver that is on the 3com web server?
>
I did try it before (a few months ago) but couldn''t use it for some 
reasons and I think it''s up to Solaris 8 anyway.

Bye, Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic,

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