[Info-vax] DE500 and autonegotiation

[Jan-Erik Soderholm]

Phillip Helbig---undress to reply wrote 2013-01-01 22:39:
> I have DE500 cards in an XP1000 and in 2 PWSs.  On the XP1000, it
> autonegotiates to 100 Mb/s full duplex at startup, but on the PWSs (what
> I assume is) the same card comes up at 10 Mb/s half duplex.  Is there
> any way I can get something better on the PWSs, preferably 100 Mb/s full
> duplex (which I gather is the most I can expect from this card)?  If so,
> can it be done from VMS or must it be done at console level?
>

Check with SET DEVICE in MC LANCP. But maybe one has to set
it using >>> SET... to make it permanent. There is never any
reason to have VMS boxes autonegotiate, as far as I've
found out.

Jan-Erik.