Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with adaptively determining settings of a transmit equalizer are described. According to one embodiment, a method includes removing, from a signal received from a first device, a signal contribution of a transmit equalizer to produce a residual signal. The method includes generating revised tap coefficients based, at least in part, on the residual signal. The method includes providing settings that are based, at least in part, on the revised tap coefficients to the transmit equalizer in the transmitter of a second device that is across a channel on which the signal is provided.