[RESOLVED] Is there a fix for a REALtek NIC @ 100BaseT?

[archonix]

I have a netgear fa310TX that will to 100BaseT full duplex and a Realtek NIC that when I remove the setting from Autosence and put it on the 100BaseT to match can't even ping the netgear nic. I'm pretty sure this is a driver problem with the Realtek and that other people have this problem. Is there a fix for it out?

[Antimatter]

Realtek cards apparently don't support full duplex @ 100Mbps. I understand it's a chipset issue, with no driver fix. I'd be interested if anyone does know a fix for it.

[condor]

not quite - according to realtek the card supports 100Mbit Full duplex....

I even got realtek cards to work in Full Duplex at 100Mbit under Win98SE - but only sometimes..

It's totally unreliable.

my advise - throw this POS and get a good Intel or 3Com NIC.

[Higg]

I have a question to this:

What is the sense of disabling autosensing if it works fine? :confused: (I'm really interested!)

Higg

[Deity]

I had a similar issue just a couple of weeks ago. My company replaced all the hubs in the office with switches. Once we did that, two systems on the network no longer functioned. They were unable to ping any part of the network except for themselves. By changing the speed of the NIC (these were both REALTek) I could get it to function on the network, but only on 10MB Full-duplex. None of the other settings worked. I downloaded the "newest" driver, or so they claimed but with the same results. I have no idea why the system would only work this way on these two. Other systems run fine with the same NIC/settings. In the end, I just swapped cards & used netgear instead and if I have any say in it, we will NEVER use those other cards again.

I wish I had a solution for you, but cost wise for us, it wasn't economical for me to persue the matter. I'd be interested in hearing of a solution if anybody knows of one.

[CJK]

I've used realtek nic's in full duplex and it worked fine. Maybe it was a fluke that it worked. :confused: