From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 22 15:53:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from orion.ac.hmc.edu (Orion.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98E3215A1A for ; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brooks@one-eyed-alien.net) Received: from localhost (brdavis@localhost) by orion.ac.hmc.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA11939; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:50:16 -0700 (PDT) From: brooks@one-eyed-alien.net X-Authentication-Warning: orion.ac.hmc.edu: brdavis owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 15:50:16 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: brdavis@orion.ac.hmc.edu To: Benjamin Gavin Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower 10/100 In-Reply-To: <4.1.19990422155758.00afa990@mail.supranet.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 22 Apr 1999, Benjamin Gavin wrote: > Just wondering if anyone has had any problems with the SMC EtherPower II > Network cards with either 2.2-STABLE or 3.1-STABLE. I have two boxes (one > running each version) and they both are showing some very weird behavior > with these cards, namely they are giving 30-100ms ping times over ethernet. I had problems with those cards a while back. I was able to force them to work somewhat on a 2.2-STABLE system by setting the media correctly, but I had no luck on 3.x. It should be noted though that the configuration they were in was INVALID. They were hooked into a 10/100 hub, but via CAT-3. It may be that the problem was simply that the cards are very sensative to cable quality. I replaced them with Intel cards and they worked a lot better. Those hosts are now running wired to 10Mbits though. -- Brooks To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message