From: sreece@qred.quintiles.com
Sent: Friday, June 11, 1999 5:54 AM
To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com
Subject: Re: AS 255/300 with DE500

Arne (avajhoej at gtech dot com) wrote:
>Yep, that console command worked.
>
>And the 100 indicator went on. But when VMS booted then it went out.
>
>But then I fumbled a little around and:
>
>$ MC LANCP SET DEV EWA0 /SPEED=100 /FULL
>
>got the indicator ligth back !
>
>Does it make sense ?
>
>Arne

Yep, that makes sense.

There are two ways of setting a non-autosense card to 100 Mb/sec :
a) Set it at the console, in which case the settings get saved
b) Set it via LANCP in which case the settings get forgotten on the next
reboot.

There are also two settings for fast - one duplex and the other not.

The fact that the light went out when the machine booted could indicate
that there is a setting somewhere in the startups on the machine that sets
the speed back to 10Mb/sec or, in the case of the DE500-BA it may be that
the machine thinks the port is only set to 10 on the hub/switch/whatever.

Steve.