Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 07:31:23 +1100 From: aunty <aunty@comcen.com.au> To: Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3com 3c595 only 10Mbps? Message-ID: <19991231073123.G47183@comcen.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912301526340.68077-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <19991230052840.E47183@comcen.com.au> <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912301526340.68077-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
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On Thu, Dec 30, 1999 at 03:31:33PM +0100, Konrad Heuer wrote:
>
> On Thu, 30 Dec 1999, aunty wrote:
>
> > I have a 3com ethernet card which has been running on an ancient BSDI
> > system with "media 100BaseTX,full_duplex" sent to ifconfig.
> >
> > After converting to FreeBSD I get
> >
> > vx0: <3COM 3C595 Fast Etherlink III PCI> rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.10.0
> > utp/tx[*utp*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address 00:60:97:07:d2:e7
> >
> > and the vx man page says
> >
> > The vx driver provides support for the 3Com 3c590 and 3c595
> > EtherLink III and Fast EtherLink III PCI Ethernet cards in
> > 10 Mbps mode.
> >
> > Does that mean I have to use some other type of card to get the higher
> > speed with FreeBSD?
>
> You didn't mention the FreeBSD-RELEASE you use but it seems to be
> 2.2.x-RELEASE which doesn't negotiate speed.
Oops, sorry, it's 3.3-RELEASE, soon to become 3.4 or -STABLE.
> Either, you can use a DOS boot floppy and the 3Com DOS utility to
> force the card to 100MBit/s, or you can upgrade to 3.x-RELEASE where
> autonegotiation works pretty good.
In that case, is the man page (quoted above) misleading me, since it
seems to be saying we're stuck on 10mbps forever?
And why is it asking for auto select to be _disabled_? I guess it has
to be right, but I'm not sufficiently convinced to throw all the users
off while I find out for sure.
--
Regards,
-*Sue*-
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