From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon Oct 30 8:35:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB26437B479 for ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:35:14 -0800 (PST) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9UGZAH17914; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:35:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:35:09 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Kal Torak Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC-Card ethernet - one way talk problem Message-ID: <20001030083509.P22110@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <39FD56F7.CF272E2D@quake.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <39FD56F7.CF272E2D@quake.com.au>; from kaltorak@quake.com.au on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 10:09:43PM +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org * Kal Torak [001030 03:09] wrote: > Hiyas, > > Here is what I have run into with my laptop and pc-card ether > net device... > My specs are as follows: > IBM Thinkpad I Series > D-Link ethernet PC-Card "DFE-650" > FreeBSD 4.0 > > After fixing the timeout bug this card was having with 4.0 > and finally being able to give it an address and have it > communicate it only seems to work for out going traffic, > ifconfig says its running in Simplex mode, and my switch > displays it as being in Half-Duplex... > > I can ping all the machines on my network fine from the > laptop, but nothing can access it... If you can ping then that means that the card can recieve packets. > I installed win98 to see if maybe there was a problem > between the card and the switch but it worked perfectly > under windows... It dose come with a linux driver, Im > not sure if I can use that under FreeBSD or if that would > even help... > > I am at a loss what to do about this, any help would be > greatly appreciated! Give us more information about your (mis)configuration. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message