From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 13 6:57:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E123837B401 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:57:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (bgm-24-94-58-56.stny.rr.com [24.94.58.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 274C043ED1 for ; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 06:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from syborg@stny.rr.com) Received: by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix, from userid 507) id CA2034FC8A; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:43:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by janeway.vonbek.dhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4BC94A0F; Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:43:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:43:51 -0500 (EST) From: John Bleichert X-X-Sender: syborg@janeway.vonbek.dhs.org Reply-To: John Bleichert To: George Jeliazkov Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card questions In-Reply-To: <20021213105615.339eb0a8.georgej@mail.rmdvarna.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, George Jeliazkov wrote: > Subject: LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card questions > > Hi all, > > I've got a brand new LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V3) > for my laptop.I'm running FreeBSD-4.7 RELEASE.The card is recognized > correctly and configured with no trouble. > The problem is that the card works only at 10Mbit/s. > I've read the man page for ed(4), but didn't find a solution. > > Here's the output from ifconfig: > > # ifconfig ed1 > ed1: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 > > # ifconfig ed1 192.168.1.3 media 100baseTX ...(or media autoselect) > ifconfig: SIOCGIFMEDIA: Invalid argument > > does this mean that the ed driver doesn't support 100baseTX on this card? > > So I've tried another thing: > Booted MicroBSD from CD for a test: > > here's what shows at boot: > > ne3 at pcmcia1 function 0 "Linksys, EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V3), V2.0" port 0xa000/32: LAN iobase 0x240 (0xa000) -> 0x0 > ne3: address 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 > bmtphy0 at ne3 phy 1: BCM5221 100baseTX PHY, rev. 4 > > # ifconfig ne3 > ne3: flags=8863 mtu 1500 > address: 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 > media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex > status: active > inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe99:bed7%ne3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x14 > > here it shows as 100baseTX full-duplex...but it works at 10Mbit/s again. > > maybe this card works only at 10Mbit/s ? > > thanx > > george > Search the archives of this list (and any of the Linux tech lists) for PCMPC100 and you'll see it's just not a very good card in the free *nix space. The only reason mine didn't end up in the trash is because a Windows-using friend wanted it. It's a bad performer for him too (just barely above 10 Mb) but he doesn't care... # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message