Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1998 19:11:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> To: Marc van Kempen <marc@bowtie.nl> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de problem Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.980406190510.1307A-100000@korin.warman.org.pl> In-Reply-To: <199804061333.PAA15192@bowtie.nl>
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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
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