Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:46:01 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux and network cards Message-ID: <200104130046.f3D0k1P92633@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> of "Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:13:29 CDT." <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104112253420.49199-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
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David Scheidt writes: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote: > > :Interesting that he happily downloaded somebody's utility and inserted > :it in his system config to smack a NIC into half duplex. Apparently > :something the Linux driver didn't have a syscall for, or something the > :Linux ifconfig didn't support. > > I'm pretty sure there are some FreeBSD drivers that don't suport this, either. > That may have changed, though. Certainly not for the Intel and 3Com cards under discussion. > :I am not a kernel programmer but way back in 1996 my version 0.0 21040 > :started having problems with FreeBSD when autosensing was being added to > :the de driver. So that's the last time I spent much time really reading > :that code. My impression was the difficulty was in figuring out *how* to > :set the duplex mode on the media interface on cards of different > :manufacture. The card doesn't set the mode, the driver has to tell it > :what to do. > > Auto-sensing is hard, too. There's lots of hardware that doesn't do the > right thing. The thing in my case was that no-auto was not working as I had a card where the interface could not be selected by software, and otherwise it was only a 21040, locked at 10M. But this was over 5 years ago. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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