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Subject: kern/18790: rl driver transport type autodetection not working
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>Number:         18790
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       rl driver transport type autodetection not working
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed May 24 00:30:01 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Lucas Nussbaum
>Release:        4.0-STABLE
>Organization:
Inter Action Net Services
>Environment:
FreeBSD phastas.e-interaction.com 4.0-STABLE FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE #0: Tue May 23 09:53:06 CEST 2000     lucas@phastas.e-interaction.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/PHASTAS  i386
>Description:
I had :
ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.253  netmask 255.255.255.0"
in /etc/rc.conf to configure my NIC. The NIC is connected to a 10mbps HUB, but stay in full-duplex mode (very low performances on the lan).
My NIC is a rtl8139 based one. I try with another rtl8139, and there was the same problem.
>How-To-Repeat:
I don't know which NICs are affected.
>Fix:
I had to specify the media type by hand :
ifconfig_rl0="inet 192.168.1.253  netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP"
btw, there might be a documentation problem : it seems you can't force a card to use half-duplex when using 10baseT/UTP (with mediaopt).


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