From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 9 15:25:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA06272 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:25:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au [202.14.186.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA06263 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 15:25:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au) From: Stanley.Hopcroft@ipaustralia.gov.au Received: (from smap@localhost) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au (8.8.5/8.6.12) id IAA02236 for ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:24:42 +1000 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au: smap set sender to using -f Received: from noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(192.3.1.21) by pericles.IPAustralia.gov.au via smap (V2.0) id xma002233; Fri, 10 Jul 98 08:24:31 +1000 Received: by noteshub01.aipo.gov.au(Lotus SMTP MTA v4.6.1 (569.2 2-6-1998)) id 4A25663C.007B1CB2 ; Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:24:42 +1000 X-Lotus-FromDomain: IP_AUSTRALIA To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Message-ID: <4A25663C.007B16D1.00@noteshub01.aipo.gov.au> Date: Fri, 10 Jul 1998 07:10:13 +1000 Subject: D-Link Ethernet card DFE-500TX works fine under 2.2.5-R Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear Ladies and Gentlemen, I am writing to say that the D-Link DFE-500TX works *fine* under FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. This card is an auto negotiating 10/100 UTP device that uses the DEC DC 21240 chipset. I replaced AMD PCNet device NICs (IBM badged, detected by the lnc driver) with these and have had good results. The only slightly adverse observation I have about this product - and it may well be the drivers fault - is that if the hub goes away (eg power off) the device becomes unusable and I recover from this with ifconfig de0 down ifconfig de0 up etc. This behaviour seems horribly like Token Ring. BTW I am very pleased with the FreeBSD token ring effort, but you don't really want to live with token ring networks unless you like spending hours dealing with beaconing ... hosts that won't insert into the Token Ring etc etc. Thank you, Yours sincerely. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message