From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 19 7:31:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (news-ma.rhein-neckar.de [193.197.90.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE1C514D98 for ; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 07:31:13 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: from bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (uucp@localhost) by news-ma.rhein-neckar.de (8.8.8/8.8.8) with bsmtp id QAA16783 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 16:31:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by bigeye.rhein-neckar.de (8.9.3/8.9.3) id NAA27578 for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Dec 1999 13:45:38 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: Cool little 100BaseTX switch - they're coming down in price Date: 19 Dec 1999 13:45:38 +0100 Message-ID: <83ik1i$qt6$1@bigeye.rhein-neckar.de> References: <199912190410.UAA01049@apollo.backplane.com> <385C60FC.7613CB55@bellatlantic.net> Reply-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sergey Babkin wrote: > At work I've got experience with 32-port D-Link 10/100 switched > hub. It works fine except that it hangs occasionally (can be > reset by power-cycling). So we don't buy them any more. Also > at my pre-previous employer we had small 8-port 10Mpbs hubs from > D-Link and they had the same problem, so it seems to be a family > problem. I have a D-Link DSH-5 5-port 10/100 dualspeed hub here at home, and I'm reasonably happy with it. It certainly doesn't hang. One of the machines here has trouble negotiating a working 100Mbit/s link, but that's just as likely a problem of the Linux tulip driver. After a couple of months I put a drop of oil into the bearing of the cooling fan, which strongly suggested that treatment by the noises it was making. Somebody mentioned power supplies: Since I ordered the hub from the US but live in 230V-land, I had to experiment a bit with the transformers I had lying around. Eventually I ended up feeding the hub's power supply 120V/50Hz and it's happy with that. 100V/50Hz didn't work. This should move to -chat. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.rhein-neckar.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message