The original question is below. Thanks to:
Kumar Padiyath
Werner Rost
Arno Hahma
for their replies. BAsed on a tip by Arno, I just tried setting the
card with lan_config. Arno said that he had such a card on a clone
machine that was capable of 100 Mbps full duplex. But the result that
I got was:
tu0: device incapable of auto negotiation
tu0: device incapable of 100Mbps operation
So now I know. As for turning full duplex on at 10Mbps, I get no error
message, but have no easy way of checking if it is really working at
full duplex. And since it can't autonegotiate....
Regards,
Peter
> Dear Experts:
>
> I have an old AlphaStation 600/266 which has a DEC TULIP (10Mbps)
> Ethernet Interface (DECchip 21040: Revision: 2.3) and also another
> machine with a card which is at Revision: 2.4). How can I know if
> such a card is capable of full-duplex? Or should I assume that any
> card which is not 10/100Mbps is also not capable of 10Mbps at
> full-duplex? The newer (10/100) Ethernet Interfaces claim to be
> auto negotiation capable devices. So should I presume that the
> 10Mbps is also not capable of auto negotiation?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
Peter Stern
Chemical Physics Department
Weizmann Institute of Science
76100 Rehovot, ISRAEL
email: Peter.Stern_at_weizmann.ac.il
phone: 972-8-9342096
fax: 972-8-9344123
Received on Thu Feb 01 2001 - 15:12:26 NZDT