[wellylug] Nightmares on Paradise (solved)

Jamie Baddeley wellylug at vpc.co.nz
Wed Aug 11 11:35:10 NZST 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 11:30, Donald Gordon wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:50:59 +1200
> Jamie Baddeley <wellylug at vpc.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 10:43, Donald Gordon wrote:
> > > How do you know it's Linux's fault?
> > 
> > I don't, but if you read carefully you'll note I didn't allocate blame.
> 
> Right.  I've had trouble with RTL8139s autonegotiating before, and if
> the problem was the Linux driver's fault, as opposed to the hardware's,
> then it would have been useful to know.
pass, I just added this to the interfaces stanza:

up mii-tool -F 10baseT-HD eth0

now it's fixed. It's not like that machine will need anymore that what
it's got anyway...

> 
> On a vaguely related note, did they change your IP address when they
> swapped your COM21 modem for a DOCSIS?
> 
yes. Luckily I had not built Jamie's ISP empire on top of it :D

> donald (whose COM21 is still plugged into an ISA NE2000 clone)
-- 





More information about the wellylug mailing list