SIS 900 NIC problems with FC1

[Gary Stainburn]

On Tuesday 27 April 2004 4:13 pm, jludwig wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 10:43, Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > [root at localhost root]# mii-tool
> > eth0: negotiated 100baseTx-HD, link ok
>
> mii-tool says the NIC sees other cards
>
> > [root at localhost root]# ping -b -c 3 10.2.0.0
> > WARNING: pinging broadcast address
> > PING 10.2.0.0 (10.2.0.0) 56(84) bytes of data.
> > 64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.263 ms
> > 64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.259 ms
> > 64 bytes from 10.2.1.7: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.228 ms
>
> Ping says your upper levels protocol, NIS, etc refuse to communicate.
> 1) Is this a TCP/IP protocol network?
> 2) Is there another Linux box to check for configuration information?
>
> > --- 10.2.0.0 ping statistics ---
> > 3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2004ms
> > rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.228/0.250/0.263/0.015 ms, pipe 2
> > [root at localhost root]# uname -a
> > Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.22-1.2115.nptl #1 Wed Oct 29 15:42:51 EST
> > 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > [root at localhost root]#
> > [gary at gary gary]$

I've found in the archive for (i think) this list the following message.

http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2003-December/msg02517.html

I've looked at the output from dmesg, and sure enough there's the same text 

eth0: Media Link Off

but then folowed by

eth0: Media Link On 100mbps half-duplex.

I don't understand why it would be 100MB but only half duplex.  Do you think 
this could indicate a problem.  (I've included everything dmesg had on eth0)

[root at localhost root]# dmesg|gvim -
Vim: Reading from stdin...
[root at localhost root]# dmesg|grep ^eth0
eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 11, 00:a0:cc:c5:9d:7e.
eth0: SiS 900 Internal MII PHY transceiver found at address 1.
eth0: Using transceiver found at address 1 as default
eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd000, IRQ 11, 00:a0:cc:c5:9d:7e.
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps half-duplex
eth0: Media Link Off
eth0: Media Link On 100mbps half-duplex

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