[3206] in Release_7.7_team
Re: some GX150 NIC's may have been stopped completely by the recent
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Garry Zacheiss)
Thu Mar 28 04:30:51 2002
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 04:30:48 -0500
Message-Id: <200203280930.EAA12378@opus.mit.edu>
From: Garry Zacheiss <zacheiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Bill Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>
CC: Alex Coventry <alex_c@mit.edu>, <hotline@mit.edu>, <release-team@mit.edu>
In-reply-to: "[3205] in Release_7.7_team"
>>
>> Reboot the system single user, and start the network driver forcing
>> 10base-T as follows starting at the "boot: " prompt type:
>>
>> linux single
>> insmod 3c59x options=2
>> ^D
>>
>> (The <ctrl>D will finish bringing up the Athena system. The machine
>> will be happy until the next reboot at which point it will again fail
>> to autonegotiate.)
>>
I tried this tonight on two machines that were taken off the net
entirely (w20-575-2 and w20-575-3); loading the driver this way was
sufficient to get them on the net, but they were both in the "slow"
state, as measured by time for me to login and zhm performance. Running
the modified vortex-diag you provided me with as "vortex-diag -x 10 -w"
and rebooting resulted in a machine that was acceptably fast to use.
Garry
