Thanks to:
Carl Musante
Walter Reed
Dan Sweet
Daniel Wilkinson
Tim Carlson
Christopher Barnard
Russ Poffenberger
Casper Dik
for the prompt replies. The problem was solved by disabling auto detection
and forcing the card into 10mbit/sec half duplex mode.
Many of you suggested firing the entire IT department responsible for this
debacle, which is indeed an attractive option :) Our company is growing
fast, so they leased some temporary office space next door to our main
offices... For some reason, despite having 3 weeks to prepare the space, we
are stuck with Cat3 wiring and ports that weren't activated. I'll stop the
rant here.
Directions on forcing the interface into half duplex/10mbit mode are easy to
find in the archives, but since some of you were kind enough to summarize it
for me I'll include them (quoted from Christopher's email).
ndd -set /dev/hme instance 0 <-- this line first. set which device.
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_autoneg_cap 0 <-- autonegotiation
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_10hdx_cap 1 <-- 10/half
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_10fdx_cap 0 <-- 10/full
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_100hdx_cap 0 <-- 100/half
ndd -set /dev/hme adv_100fdx_cap 0 <-- 100/full
I made these settings relatively permanent by adding lines to /etc/system to
the effect of:
set hme:hme_adv_autoneg_cap=0
set hme:hme_adv_10hdx_cap=1
etc, etc, etc....
Thanks again!
-Scott
-----Original Message-----
From: Scott McCool
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2000 11:31 AM
To: sun-managers@sunmanagers.ececs.uc.edu
Subject: new building -- cat3 wiring, network startup problems
Greetings Gurus,
We moved into a new building and the E450 I'm taking care of is having
problems getting on the network. IT tells me the building wiring is all cat
3, though I would've assumed the NIC would be able to auto detect....
What can I do to get the interface up? What information can I provide to
help troubleshoot?
Thanks!
-Scott
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