Tulip network card not connecting in 7.3?

[bpmedley at 4321.tv]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2002, David Kramer wrote:

> The kicker is this- I noticed that the light for that channel on my hub
> is not on under Linux, but it is on under Windows.  Note that the light
> on the back of the card is on under either OS!!
>
> dmesg says (again, from scribbles, not cut/paste):
>
> So my primary suspition is that the problem is the media type, but
> there's only one connector.  I assume the second one is full duplex, but
> that won't work since I'm going into a hub which goes to the intranet
> card on my firewall box.  The firewall box is a Red Hat 7.0 box that I am
> building this box to replace.  This box will be my new firewall when it's
> working (I'll re-tweak the network settings).
>
> Any thoughts?  Anything I can try?

I had to set my network card as half-duplex so that it would function
correctly with our current switch.  Mine would also "just work" under
windows.  I use mii-diag from 'http://www.scyld.com/diag/'...

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