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Date:      Fri, 28 Jul 2000 21:10:48 -0400
From:      "Patrick Bihan-Faou" <patrick@mindstep.com>
To:        "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
Cc:        <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Re[2]: outgoing IP is fscking slow... 
Message-ID:  <03ae01bff8f9$d48319d0$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>
References:  <035601bff8d7$93b06010$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com>  <4.2.2.20000728091818.03db6d70@mail.sentex.net> <141681324352.20000728151722@buz.ch> <3981843A.8157C83C@mediaone.net> <13675259221.20000728133617@buz.ch> <3981843A.8157C83C@mediaone.net> <4.2.2.20000728113241.032cb3d8@mail.sentex.net>  <200007282340.RAA61041@harmony.village.org>

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Hi,

From: "Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>
> In message <035601bff8d7$93b06010$040aa8c0@local.mindstep.com> "Patrick
Bihan-Faou" writes:
> : My observation with the rl driver on FreeBSD 4.x is that it does not
detect
> : properly that the network is running at 10baseT. You have to explicitely
> : tell it to use 10base/T (using ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP) for it to
> : work. Maybe this is something that is also broken for other drivers.
>
> I've seen this with the rl driver and the 8139, but with no other
> parts.  The realtek part is really bad.

While I agree that the realtek 8139 is not the best card I have seen,
Windows does not have any problem with the link speed autodetect... Or at
least it pretends that it detects the link speed properly (BTW FreeBSD
detects the 100BaseT properly, only 10BaseT is problematic). So I think that
there is still a little issue with the FreeBSD driver concerning media
detection. I hope that this is limited to the realtek card (I have a vr0
card that does not have any problems)...

Not a major deal, but a real annoyance.


Patrick.




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