Comment 25 for bug 94186

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David Wilson (mcs6502) wrote :

Running Ubuntu 8.10 Beta Live CD.

3c905B connected to dumb 10/100 switch (it only has link lights - no speed lights)
Card has LNK100 LED lit. Assuming we can believe the LED on the card, ethtool and "Connection Information - Active Network Connections" are misreporting the link speed as 10Mb/s.

$ uname -a
Linux ubuntu 2.6.27-4-generic #1 SMP Wed Sep 24 01:30:51 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

$ lspci
00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 30)

$ sudo ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
 Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
 Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
                         100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
 Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
 Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Full
                         100baseT/Full
 Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
 Speed: 10Mb/s
 Duplex: Half
 Port: MII
 PHYAD: 24
 Transceiver: internal
 Auto-negotiation: on
 Current message level: 0x00000001 (1)
 Link detected: yes

$ sudo mii-tool -v eth0
eth0: link ok
  product info: vendor 00:00:00, model 0 rev 0
  basic mode: autonegotiation enabled
  basic status: link ok
  capabilities: 100baseTx-FD 100baseTx-HD 10baseT-FD 10baseT-HD
  advertising: 100baseTx-FD 10baseT-FD