From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Nov 7 03:46:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA26058 for stable-outgoing; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 03:46:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id DAA26053 for ; Fri, 7 Nov 1997 03:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from synge.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id aa19169; 7 Nov 97 11:45 +0000 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Hard wiring media type on de0 driver. Date: Fri, 07 Nov 1997 11:45:48 +0000 From: David Malone Message-ID: <9711071145.aa19169@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Our hubs reset themselves this morning with an interesting side effect. It takes about 90 seconds for the hubs to restart. During this time the the two machines we have with de based ethernet cards with both UTP and Co-ax connectors decided to switch to co-ax. Naturally when the hubs came back the cards didn't.... Using "ifconfig de0 media UTP" fixed the problem. At the moment I don't say what media type to use when initially ifconfig'ing the card. If I did would the card refuse to change media unless ifconfig'ed again? It would be nice to have some protection from this. David.