From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 31 04:39:35 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8FAC216A4CE for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 04:39:35 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.planb.de (aldebaran.planb.de [193.197.184.33]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2633143D54 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 04:39:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from fred@planb.de) Received: from alpheratz.intern.planb.de (andromeda.planb.de [193.197.187.14]) by mail.planb.de with esmtp id 1B8f0H-0007ZZ-00; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:39:33 +0200 Received: from fred by alpheratz.intern.planb.de with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1B8f0W-0007sr-00 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:39:48 +0200 Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 14:39:48 +0200 From: Frederik Ramm To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040331123948.GA30274@alpheratz.intern.planb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: Frederik Ramm Subject: Problem with USB (aue0) network card "Teledat Fast Ethernet USB" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 12:39:35 -0000 Hi, I am trying to set up a DSL router based on FreeBSD and in the process I need to make a PPPoE connection to the DSL modem using a USB network inter- face. The make/model is "Teledat Fast Ethernet USB". It is recognized by FreeBSD as "aue0". With FreeBSD 4.6-RELEASE, I had the following problem: * The card worked fine when plugged in after boot and "found" by usbd, but on system shutdown or when disconnecting the card from USB, I got a lot of "usb error o rx: IOERROR" and the system hung. When booting with the card already connected, it would be detected and visible with "ifconfig" but at the first attempt of accessing it using "ppp", I got into an endless loop of "aue0: MII read timed out". With FreeBSD 5.2-RC1, the card behaves more consistently: * No matter whether you boot with the card attached or not, the first attempt of accessing it using "ppp" will always cause an endless loop of "aue0: MII read timed out". I found a message by Scott Mitchell on this list from last October (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2003-October/021984.html) in which he suggests that a 100 Mbps network might give the driver trouble. I am on a 100 Mbps network (since I put a little 10/100 switch in between the 10 MBit DSL modem and the USB NIC), but forcing the aue0 interface to 10 MBit via "ifconfig aue0 media 10baseT/UTP" did nothing to solve the problem. Any insights are most appreciated! Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frederik.ramm@planb.de