For Lobo (NIC question)

Rampage2884 · Post by **Rampage2884** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:07 pm

Simples question Lobo,

I was wondering, I know that you have LNE100TX NIC v5.1 and I was curious if you are using the default drivers that Win XP installs for it (which I think are v4) or do you install the v5.1 win 2000 drivers for it ?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:09 pm

win 2000 drivers for it ?, the new one is better version 5.1, drivers

Rampage2884 · Post by **Rampage2884** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:10 pm

I'm pretty sure there are no winxp v5.1 drivers for the LNE100TX just win2000,

or is there Lobo?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:14 pm

Just put driver disk in floppy, click on 2000, and install the one it shows, theres only 1

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:19 pm

After you reboot go back to properties and configure and change Media Type from auto detect to 10BaseT

Rampage2884 · Post by **Rampage2884** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:19 pm

Obviously those are the official win200 v5.1 drivers for the NIC.

Are they officially supported by winxp ?

Which drivers do you recommend to use Lobo ? or in other words, which ones are you using?

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:20 pm

They are supported

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:23 pm

It has been verified by experiment that certain auto-negotiating ethernet cards (both in PCs and in Macs), when connected to certain models of cable modem, sense the ethernet duplex setting incorrectly. Such a cable modem has ethernet hardware which is capable of operating only in half-duplex mode, at 10 Mbps, yet some auto-negotiating ethernet cards sense it as full-duplex. If an auto-negotiation card incorrectly starts operating in full-duplex mode, there can be collisions between ethernet packets being transmitted in both directions at the same time, leading to packet loss, and repeated re-transmissions. There is no visible evidence of this apart from poor performance. This problem can be avoided by manually configuring your ethernet card to be 10 Mbps half-duplex. No ill-effects will transpire from doing this, even when it is not necessary. The exact wording of the setting changes required varies from one manufacturer to another, so the instructions below are necessarily rather broadly defined.

To make this change under Win98/ME, follow these steps:

Open Control Panel.
Double-click Network.
From the scrollable list, select your Ethernet adapter (rather than any dial-up) with a green icon.
Click the button Properties.
Click the tab Advanced to bring it to the front:
In the Property box, the property name to be selected varies according to model of ethernet card. Examples are: Network Link Selection, Media Type, Connection Type, Duplex Mode, or any similarly-named property which can have Values looking like Auto-Negotiation, or 10BT, or 10BaseT.
In the Value box, select a value which either (a) explicitly says half-duplex or semi-duplex, or (b) at least does not say full-duplex [e.g. 10BaseT on its own is OK]. If there is a choice between 10 and 100 with half-duplex, choose the 10. Do not choose 10Base5, 10Base2, or AUI.
Click OK to exit the Adapter settings.
Click OK all the way out - you might need to restart.
To make this change under Windows 2000 or XP, follow these steps:

Open Control Panel.
Double-click Network and Dial-up Connections.
Identify the icon for your cable modem connection: usually Local Area Connection.
Right-click that icon and select Properties.
Under the ethernet adapter icon, click the button Configure.
Click the tab Advanced to bring it to the front:
In the Property box, the property name to be selected varies according to model of ethernet card. Examples are: Network Link Selection, Media Type, Connection Type, Duplex Mode, or any similarly-named property which can have Values looking like Auto-Negotiation, or 10BT, or 10BaseT.
In the Value box, select a value which either (a) explicitly says half-duplex or semi-duplex, or (b) at least does not say full-duplex [e.g. 10BaseT on its own is OK]. If there is a choice between 10 and 100 with half-duplex, choose the 10. Do not choose 10Base5, 10Base2, or AUI.
Click OK to exit the Adapter settings.
Click OK to exit the Connection properties

Rampage2884 · Post by **Rampage2884** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:23 pm

Alright, i'll check them out and test both sets of drivers to see what gives better speed. Hopefully the other drivers will have more properties to tweak.

Thanks again

Lobo · Post by **Lobo** » Thu Mar 14, 2002 9:28 pm

The only thing you change on this is Media Type=10BaseT
In properties uncheck Client for Microshaft Networks and the file and printer sharing below it