From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 17 14:17:00 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA19674 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 17 May 1998 14:17:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA19593 for ; Sun, 17 May 1998 14:16:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA28814; Sun, 17 May 1998 21:16:39 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id XAA07026; Sun, 17 May 1998 23:16:25 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980517231625.48661@follo.net> Date: Sun, 17 May 1998 23:16:25 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: Evren Yurtesen Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3C905 References: <19980517224620.37900@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Evren Yurtesen on Mon, May 18, 1998 at 01:01:28AM +0300 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 18, 1998 at 01:01:28AM +0300, Evren Yurtesen wrote: > well on the ethernet card there writes 3c905-tx > I guess it is not 3c905b... > also when I use the same card in a new installation session it works... > and also the utility of the ethernet card says that it works > > when I try to look at man vx it 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. The > medium selection can be influenced by the following link flags to the > ifconfig(8) command: > > well do this means that I can't use that ethernet card at 100 Mbps? No, but the 905 is a _very_ bad choice for 100MBit under FreeBSD. It gives bad performance (due to a polling driver; a new driver is supposedly under development, but don't hold your breath), has horrible interrupt-load, and is expensive. My advice: Get an Intel EtherExpress instead. > at startup it says > > vx0 <3COM 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL PCI> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:11:0 > mii[*mii*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address 00:60:08:50:ae:5e > > but I guess this does not mean that it is not working... That message is bogus. I've been planning to change it to 'autoselect ignored!' for a long time. > and the setup utility of the ethernet card does not let me change anything > including the irq and the address... It should let you change it to non-autoselect and set which port it should run - do you really want it to run on the mii port? Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message