Date: Sun, 2 Dec 2001 08:50:47 -0900 From: Beech Rintoul <akbeech@anchoragerescue.org> To: "denny white" <dennyboy@cableone.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: IPv6 & NIC problems, slow access using linksys pccard and ed driver Message-ID: <20011202175048.4E22C8B@nebula.anchoragerescue.org> In-Reply-To: <011101c17b56$35267040$6601a8c0@hal> References: <011101c17b56$35267040$6601a8c0@hal>
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On Sunday 02 December 2001 08:24 am, denny white wrote:
> Had written to the group previously about this problem, then used
> another system for awhile on my laptop instead of FreeBSD in order
> to get some work done. Now am running FreeBSD again, version 4.4
> & everything is working fine except am still getting dismal speeds on
> my cable Internet connection. When I had IPv6 enabled in the kernel &
> in rc.conf, I would get the message "DAD detected duplicate IPv6 address
> fe80:0004::02e0:98ff:fe8a:a1fc: NS in/out=1/1 NA in =0". I had read where
> someone else had similar problems & that's when I commented IPv6 out
> in rc.conf, took it out of the kernel & recompiled it. The 1st time after
> reboot, I got great speeds for awhile. Then later it was back to about ISDN
> rates & often much lower. On Ted Mittelstaedt's advice from message back
> from several months ago, I've ordered a 3com 3c589c nic, because he said
> that's the 1st thing anyone would ask me, if I had the same the problem
> with any other cards, but while I'm waiting on it, I'd still like to get to
> the bottom of this if I could. Below are copies of the current ifconfig &
> dmesg output along with pccard_ether & the kernel config info. Please
> advise if there's anything else I can post to help.
> The pcmcia nic info is:
> LinkSys Fast Ethernet 10/100 PC Card - Model NP100
> Thanks to all for any & all help.
> Dennis White
>
(snip)
Try adding "media 10baseT/utp" to your ifconfig line in /etc/rc.conf. I had
similar problems with a linksys card in autoselect mode.
Beech
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