Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 11:39:40 +0200 (CEST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Johan=20Petersson?= <kjep@yahoo.com> To: Patrick Soltani <psoltani@ultradns.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Duplex problem with Etherlink XL (3c900B), using xl driver. Message-ID: <20020601093940.84487.qmail@web11202.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <3DBB075EEB95944492E127F2B9A96FAF539599@ultra-exchange.UltraDNS.com>
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Trying 100basetx gives me : ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured which is hardly surprising since the card does not support 100Mbps. The xl man page says "full-duplex" and "half-duplex" are supported as media options. I don't get any error message when using "full-duplex", it's just the network performace drops and the LED on the switch does not come on (so the cards is not really switching to full duplex). It would seem like the card supports full duplex though since the switch indicates so before the NIC is probed by FreeBSD. /Johan --- Patrick Soltani <psoltani@ultradns.com> skrev: > Did you try: > ifconfig xl0 media 100basetx mediaopt full-duplex TheRest... > what error do you get if not successful? > > Please note that you may have to pick the mediaopt from the xl man pages. > Do a "man xl" and you should be able to see the mediaopt parameters. > > > Regards, > Patrick Soltani. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Johan Petersson [mailto:kjep@yahoo.com] > > Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 6:38 AM > > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > Subject: Duplex problem with Etherlink XL (3c900B), using xl driver. > > > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > I'm having problems getting FreeBSD to use full duplex with my > > 3com Etherlink XL card. The NIC is connected to a 10/100 switch > > and during power up and boot the full duplex LED on the switch > > is on, until the probing of the NIC (using xl driver). Then the > > LED goes out indicating half duplex mode. When I boot DOS the > > LED stays on all the time. > > > > Trying to force full duplex with ifconfig does not seem to work. > > The LED remains off and instead network thruput falls to about > > 30 kbit/s... I have tried both auto (NWAY) and manual settings > > of the card using a 3com DOS utility, but no change. > > > > Relevant (?) lines from dmesg (boot -v): > > xl0: <3Com 3c900B-COMBO Etherlink XL> port 0x4000-0x407f mem > > 0x60000000-0x600000 > > 7f irq 10 at device 15.0 on pci0 > > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:04:22:a1:a2 > > xl0: media options word: 38 > > xl0: guessing COMBO (AUI/BNC/TP) > > xl0: found 10baseT > > xl0: found AUI > > xl0: found BNC > > xl0: selecting 10baseT transceiver, half duplex > > > > "ifconfig xl0" gives me: > > xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > > inet 192.168.1.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > > ether 00:50:04:22:a1:a2 > > media: Ethernet 10baseT/UTP (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>) > > > > Finally, "uname -a": > > FreeBSD hawk.sigtuna.lan 4.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE #4: > > Fri May 31 > > 13:01:43 CEST 2002 > > johan@falcon.sigtuna.lan:/usr/src/sys/compile/HAWK i386 > > > > The computer is an old IBM PC Pentium 133. > > > > Does anyone have any ideas how to enable full duplex under FreeBSD? > > > > Regards > > Johan Petersson > > > > _____________________________________________________ > > Följ VM på nära håll på Yahoo!s officielle VM-sajt www.yahoo.se/vm2002 > > Håll dig ajour med nyheter och resultat, med vinnare och förlorare... > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > _____________________________________________________ Följ VM på nära håll på Yahoo!s officielle VM-sajt www.yahoo.se/vm2002 Håll dig ajour med nyheter och resultat, med vinnare och förlorare... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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