100base-T in WinXP, 10base-T in Linux

[HappySegfault]

Hey all,

I've got a problem with my dual-booting WinXP Home/RedHat 9 box. When I boot XP, I get a nice 100base-T (100mbps) connection to my SMC Barricade Turbo router. When I boot the same machine to Linux, I have two problems. First, the eth0 connection doesn't come up at boot properly. It tries to bring up the connection, but it fails and gives me a message about "check cable" (or something to that effect). Second, If I do a simple "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" the eth0 comes up OK, except that the connection is only 10base-T (one-tenth as fast!). There is a message in "/var/log/messages" saying that autonegotiation failed, link beat status something or other.

I tried booting Knoppix 3.2, and it has the same no-link-at-boot problem. Once I thought I got pump to get a 100base-T connection established, but I haven't been able to get pump to do it again. It's just 10base-T now.

Any ideas of how to get to the bottom of this?

Best regards,
Happy Segfault (not so happy at the moment)
:|

 

[Electrode]

That shouldn't be. What kind of network card are you using?

 

[HappySegfault]

I'm using a Linksys PCI card. I posted more details on Usenet:

Take a look here, if you don't mind.

Any ideas?

I'm going to try swapping out the card with an RT8139 (?) based one and see if it does the same thing.

 

[HappySegfault]

Thanks for the reply, but I took the easy way out and replaced the Linksys card I had with an SMC2-1211TX, which seems to work fine. I get close to 10 MB/s throughput transferring files now.

Best regards,
HappySegfault

 

[TheCorm]

Weird...was the Linksys card fully supported by that kernel of linux?...it must have been....odd prob!

 

[capricorn]

I have a pair of LinkSys LNE 100TX's in my RedHat Linux firewall. I didn't have to do anything to get them recognized. That was sort of a first. I just had to set their IP addresses & netmasks up.

-cap

 

[HappySegfault]

The LinkSys card really should have worked. I have another LinkSys card (different revision) in my other Linux box, and it works fine. Maybe it's flaky. It's "in the drawer" now!