From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 8 15:14:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B05E416A4CE for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:14:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from moutng.kundenserver.de (moutng.kundenserver.de [212.227.126.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4236443D31 for ; Wed, 8 Dec 2004 15:14:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dvc@jtxa.de) Received: from [212.227.126.155] (helo=mrelayng.kundenserver.de) by moutng.kundenserver.de with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1Cc3WP-00008I-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:14:29 +0100 Received: from [217.231.57.71] (helo=[192.168.1.20]) by mrelayng.kundenserver.de with asmtp (TLSv1:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.35 #1) id 1Cc3WO-0001Gt-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:14:29 +0100 Message-ID: <41B71A44.402@jtxa.de> Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 16:14:12 +0100 From: "dvc@jtxa.de" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20041016 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Provags-ID: kundenserver.de abuse@kundenserver.de auth:f88fa41607e84e918974873c6ed03233 Subject: Re: ax88790 chipset 100mbit/s support X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 15:14:30 -0000 Henry Miller wrote: > On 12/9/2004 at 02:25 dvc@jtxa.de wrote: > > >>hello, >> >>i have a 10/100 fast ethernet pccard labeled "sitecom". >>it is built around the asix ax88790 chipset and runs >>at 10 mbit using the ed driver. >> >>is 10 mbit/sec the maximum transfer rate the ed driver >>supports? >> >>does somebody know a way i can use this card at 100 >>mbit/sec on my freebsd-5.3-release system? >> >>the dmesg output for ed0: >> >>ed0: at port 0x300-0x31f irq 5 >>function 0 config 7 on pccard1 >>ed0: [GIANT-LOCKED] >>ed0: Ethernet address: 00:10:60:f5:e1:12 >>ed0: if_start running deferred for Giant >> >>uname -a: >> >>FreeBSD host1 5.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #2: >>Wed Dec 1 17:01:58 CET 2004 root@host1:/usr/src/sys >>/i386/compile/NEU i386 >> >>ifconfig ed0: >> >>ed0: flags=108843 mtu 1500 >> inet 192.168.1.20 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 >> inet6 fe80::210:60ff:fef5:e112%ed0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 >> ether 00:10:60:f5:e1:12 >> >>thanks, >> > thanks for your reply. > > Are you sure this card is really running at 10Mbit/s? it takes more than 10 seconds to transfer a 10-megabyte-file. testing the transfer speed with /usr/ports/net/netstrain shows transfer rates of 950 K/s for receiving and 1350 K/s for sending data. Are you sure > your hub/switch supports 100 MBit/s? yes. Do you have any 10Mbs only > devices on the network? (some hubs will not allow two different > speeds) Are you sure your wires are all cat-5, with all wires > connected (iirc 10baseT uses less wires than 100), and good. (I've > seen mice eat previously working cables, depending on the exact damage > done the cable may still work at 10) > > Are you sure this card supports the same protocol as your hub? Back > when 100 megabit ethernet first came out there were several different > incompatible protocols. Most of those cards would step down to 10mbs > if they couldn't agree on a protocol. (as I recall the hardware > engineers said about the auto speed select abilities is that the good > news is it worked, and the two end points were able to agree on a > common speed. The bad news is you are now running at 10Mbs) This > situation settled down quickly, but if this card/hub combination has > never been working at 100Mbs, it might be an issue you are having. > > I'm focusing on hardware, because that is a common issue. It could be > FreeBSD, but often it isn't. > > i have used this card on this laptop on three different 10/100 mbit lans, always using the same cat 5 cables as the other hosts. transferring data on these networks with other hosts works at the typical 100mbit transfer rates of 7-9 megabytes/sec. thus, i assume i can exclude the possibilty of a hardware problem outside of my computer. martin