During bootup, it says auto negotiation capable device, I assumed it
was telling the truth! :)
> Original question below:
> Okay i forgot to mention, its a DEC TULIP (10/100) Ethernet Interface
> DECchip 21143: Revision: 4.1
>
> I have an XP1000 running 4.0E and during bootup, I see the card is
> running in half duplex 10baseT. Its a auto-negotiation device but if I
> set ewa0_mode to fastfd or fast or auto-negotiation, it hangs during
> bootup when it tries to nfs mount the dirs in fstab. The error finally
> says "can't get hostid". Its an 100BaseT line, is there something I'm
> doing wrong or trying? Here's the steps I've tried.
> >>> set ewa0_mode fastfd OR set ewa0_mode auto-negotiation OR set ewa0_mode
fast
> >>> boot
> machine boots up...
> hangs trying to nfs mount dirs.
>
> I seen another mail that showed an init between the set cmd and boot
> cmd, do I need to do this?
Received on Fri Mar 24 2000 - 20:16:44 NZST