From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 4 23:10:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pen.homeip.net (72-17-237-24-cable.juneau.ak.net [24.237.17.72]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 372F637B400 for ; Sat, 4 May 2002 23:10:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [[UNIX: localhost]]) by pen.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.6/SuSE Linux 0.5) id g456AdH06620 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 4 May 2002 22:10:39 -0800 Message-Id: <200205050610.g456AdH06620@pen.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: John Andersen Reply-To: jsa@pen.homeip.net To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I shut off auto-negotiation on my NIC Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 22:10:39 -0800 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.3.2] References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday 03 May 2002 09:59 am, Jeff Heath wrote: > I'm a newbie to BSD.  Installed 4.0 GENERIC on a Dell Optiplex with a 3Com > 3c905b Ethernet card. > > If I connect the BSD machine to my Cisco 2610 router.  It won't > auto-negotiate to 10MB half-duplex > > Also, if I connect the BSD machine to the Cisco 2610 router after it > negotiated to 10MB half-duplex, all is well. This is Cisco's fault. Their switches and routers just don't get along with many auto-negotiate nics. But I doub't 3com is blameless either. Often plugging a dumb hub beween the nic and the router will solve the problem. I think ifconfig does some of these tasks. -- _________________________________________________ No I Don't Yahoo! And I'm getting pretty sick of being asked if I do. _________________________________________________ John Andersen / Juneau Alaska To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message