From owner-freebsd-isp Fri Sep 17 4:49:55 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from gw.caamora.com.au (jonath5.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.41.237]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B3B615425 for ; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 04:49:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jon@gw.caamora.com.au) Received: (from jon@localhost) by gw.caamora.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA02531; Fri, 17 Sep 1999 21:49:14 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Message-ID: <19990917214913.A2505@caamora.com.au> Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 21:49:13 +1000 From: jonathan michaels To: dg@root.com, Palle Girgensohn Cc: river , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp0: device timeout Mail-Followup-To: dg@root.com, Palle Girgensohn , river , freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG References: <37E20CBE.BFC69E55@partitur.se> <199909171119.EAA16082@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <199909171119.EAA16082@implode.root.com>; from David Greenman on Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:19:02AM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD gw.caamora.com.au 2.2.7-RELEASE i386 X-Mood: i'm alive, if it counts Organisation: Caamora, PO Box 144, Rosebery NSW 1445 Australia Sender: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Sep 17, 1999 at 04:19:02AM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > >oops... I've never bothered to check this. Here's the report from > >ifconfig: > > > >$ ifconfig fxp0 > >fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > inet 193.10.208.65 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 193.10.208.255 > > ether 00:a0:c9:ac:e7:75 > > media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active > > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX > >10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP > > > > > >I guess I can set the switch to full-duplex, no auto-sensing, and > >ifconfig the NIC with 'media full-duplex', right? > > Actually what you want is: > > ifconfig fxp0 media 100basetx mediaopt full-duplex > > Also be sure that the switch is configured the same and keep in mind that > whenever you specify something other than auto for either the speed or the > duplex that autonegotiation is completely disabled, so both sides must be > set the same for it to work. i just purchased one of these (intel etherexpress pro pci 10/100tx) and plan to use it in a 10 mbit ethernet network. so i assume that i will need to make apropriate changes for 10 mb working and i should be ok. sorry for this almost silly question, i've had some serious trouble with a smc pci 10/100tx (thier proprietry chipset -9432tx something) from what i've read recently i've gone from "bad to worse" with respect to my nic choices. i was looking for a plugin and forget solution like the old smc etherelite nic's used to be. thank you for your time and sorry for the intrusion. regards jonathan -- =============================================================================== Jonathan Michaels PO Box 144, Rosebery, NSW 1445 Australia =========================================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message