From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 30 07:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20538 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 07:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan@dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA20523 for ; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 07:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) id JAA12181; Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:54:44 -0600 (CST) Message-ID: <19980130095444.45141@emsphone.com> Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 09:54:44 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: dg@root.com, Jagjiwan Singh Grewal Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hard set speed and duplex on Intel Etherexpress PRO/100 References: <199801300835.AAA03387@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89i In-Reply-To: <199801300835.AAA03387@implode.root.com>; from "David Greenman" on Fri Jan 30 00:35:37 GMT 1998 X-OS: FreeBSD 2.2-970701-RELENG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG X-To-Unsubscribe: mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org "unsubscribe questions" In the last episode (Jan 30), David Greenman said: > >I have seen a number of problems with auto-negotiation and would > >like to know if FreeBSD 2.2.2 or 2.2.5 allow hard setting of speed > >and duplex on the Intel EtherExpress PRO/100 LAN Adapter cards and > >3com 3c595's. > > The answer to this is mixed. The fxp driver supports manual > setting of speed and duplex, but the vx driver does not. > For the fxp driver, see the manual page. The fxp man page won't really help.. what you need is ifconfig. run ifconfig -m fxp0 (or vx0) to see the allowable media types and options. For example, my fxp0 gives this: fxp0: (etc) media: autoselect supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP The entries in are media options, not really media. So, if you wanted to force 10mbit full-duplex mode, you would run ifconfig fxp0 media 10baseT/utp mediaopt full-duplex -Dan Nelson dnelson@emsphone.com