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Date:      Mon, 3 May 1999 13:17:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Wham Bang <wham_bang@yahoo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Crash and burn with 100mbps on 3c905 (3.1-STABLE)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905031316380.20321-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19990503143515.10150.rocketmail@web106.yahoomail.com>

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On Mon, 3 May 1999, Wham Bang wrote:

> I have a box I'm trying to set up as a gateway for a few machines.
> It's got both a 3c509 (ISA) and a 3c905 (PCI) card installed.  The 509
> is hooked up to a cable modem and the 905 to a 100BaseT hub.  Both the
> hub and the 905's LEDs are in agreement that they're using 100mbs. I'm
> using network 10.0.0.0 internally (on the hub).

What brand/model of hub?

> I sucessfully installed 3.1-STABLE last night via ftp over the 509,
> and proceeded to configure the 905's interface.  However, it doesn't
> work at all.
> 
> First of all, when booting, the card is recognized, but I get a
> message to the effect that:
> 
> xl0: autoneg not complete (forcing half-duplex, 10Mbps)
> 
> (This might not be verbatim, I'm going from memory since I am at work
> and the machine at home.)  This message is odd since (as mentioned
> above) the LEDs indicate 100mbps...

Then force it.  

ifconfig xl0 media 100baseTX

> An "ifconfig -a" after the machine comes up shows the interface is up,
> but I can't ping the box from another machine, and whenever I try to
> ping out, I crash and burn with a message that looks roughly like
> "segfault while in kernel mode (ping)" - and the machine reboots.

Can you grab the actual message?  That is a bad bug if it's there.

> 
> Anyone have any ideas?  Am I doing something obviously wrong? Any
> known issues with running both a 509 and 905 in the same box? Any help
> would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> TIA,
> 
> ===
> Wham! <wham_bang@yahoo.com>
> 
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Doug White                               
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