Enable full duplex

[Aboroth]

I have two NICs that I am trying to enable full duplex on, a 3com 3c509b and a Kingston KNE20T which uses the NE2000 driver.

I know both of these cards support full duplex, and I know that my switch supports full duplex. How do I go about enabling it for either (or even better both) cards? They aren't auto negotiating for some reason. I can get these cards to do full duplex in Windows. Are the Linux drivers even capable?

[Zoist]

Isn't the card a 3c905b? Not 3c509b?

Anyway, I have two in my Linux box and I wondered also how to change the duplex mode.
Mine are using the ne2k-pci drivers.

Looking forward to replies....

Thanks.

[jumpedintothefire]

grab the dos configuration disk and hard code the card to full duplex...

[ 20 August 2001: Message edited by: jumpedintothefire ]

[Aboroth]

Nope, it is a 3c509b, which is an ISA 10Mb card. 3com thought they would be really annoying and made 3c509 and a 3c905 cards. Blech. :)
Looks like there was a disk 2 for the 3c509b, which seems to be the disk that the config utility is on. Time to go looking for it.
I was thinking, though, that there might be at least some command or option I could enable with the linux drivers for an NE2000 card to enable full duplex. If there is one I want to know what it is. Yes, I know that there are config utilities for a lot of cards, but what about the cards that don't have one, or are just generic NE2000 cards? Isn't there something I can do in Linux to enable full duplex?

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by Aboroth:
<STRONG>Looks like there was a disk 2 for the 3c509b, which seems to be the disk that the config utility is on. Time to go looking for it.</STRONG>

just boot with a dos disk, then run 3c5x9cfg (http://www.fobot.net/3C5X9CFG.EXE)
if you need to disable pnp on the card (which you do if you want to manually set it) then run pnpdsabl.bat (http://www.fobot.net/PNPDSABL.BAT)

um, i meant (in case it isn't obvious) that you disable first, config second :o

[ 20 August 2001: Message edited by: FoBoT ]

[Aboroth]

Thanks for the help, but this is driving me nuts. I disabled PnP and manually set everything, and I know that the cable is good and I know my switch supports full duplex, but I just can't get this stupid card to run with full duplex in Linux!

Is there some switch I have to add when loading the module to enable full duplex?

Or, is there an ISA network card that anyone knows of that has a Linux driver that most definitely auto detects full duplex?

[ 21 August 2001: Message edited by: Aboroth ]