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>On Tue, 15 Jan 2002, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
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>> >--- Greywolf <greywolf@starwolf.com> wrote:
>> >> Greetings,
>> >> 
>> >> I have a dell-410 at work which has what the kernel
>> >> thinks is an ex
>> >> on board.  I'm not convinced it IS an ex for real,
>> >> because as soon
>> >> as I ifconfig the interface up, the lights go out.
>> >> 
>> >> ...is this a quirk?
>> >
>> 
>> I missed the original post.  However, I've had problems with the 
>> built-in 3c905b in my Dell Precision-410.  The fix is to specify the 
>> media type explicitly -- the fault is in the autonegotiation.
>
>My experience with Dells using this onboard NIC is the same.
>Autonegotiation didn't work, in fact one system I remember having to
>force it to 10Base2 even though it didn't have thinwire ethernet on
>it.  My suggestion try all the media options.

When I encountered this, no combination of media options would get the
card working.  My solution is in PR kern/13653.  Works fine with
autonegotiation, IIRC.  I no longer have access to that box.

Cheers,
entropy

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