From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Apr 6 10:10:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA18794 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:10:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from korin.warman.org.pl (korin.nask.waw.pl [148.81.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA18769 for ; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 10:10:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from abial@nask.pl) Received: from localhost (abial@localhost) by korin.warman.org.pl (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id TAA02143; Mon, 6 Apr 1998 19:11:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: korin.warman.org.pl: abial owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 19:11:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki X-Sender: abial@korin.warman.org.pl To: Marc van Kempen cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de problem In-Reply-To: <199804061333.PAA15192@bowtie.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 6 Apr 1998, Marc van Kempen wrote: > > If you're running version which supports 'media' flags to the interface, > > then manually run ifconfig to select the proper media (de driver tries > > autoselecting other media in case of link failure, and doesn't autosense > > when the proper link goes up again). If not, try doing ifconfig de0 down, > > then up - at least this helps in my case... > > > > Hi, > > How do I tell which version I have, and if I have the right version If you do a 'ifconfig -a', and the interface parameters mention something like 'media', that's the new version. > how do I tell it to use the proper media? E.g: to select UTP interface on de0 card you do: ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP This is described in excruciating details in man page... :-) Andrzej Bialecki ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- abial@warman.org.pl | if(halt_per_mth > 0) { fetch("http://www.freebsd.org") } Research & Academic | "Be open-minded, but don't let your brains to fall out." Network in Poland | All of the above (and more) is just my personal opinion. ---------------------+--------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message