From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 15:59:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe.yi.org (adsl-63-192-100-78.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.192.100.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD2AA37B440 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:59:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe.yi.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8LMxp135903 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:59:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 15:59:51 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet: full-duplex how? Message-ID: <20000921155951.C35631@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20000920193159.B25503@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> <200009210704.AAA08336@implode.root.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200009210704.AAA08336@implode.root.com>; from dg@root.com on Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:04:48AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Sep 21, 2000 at 12:04:48AM -0700, David Greenman wrote: > >I have a system with an IntelPro Ethernet card, which purports to > >support full-duplex (reformatted for legibility): > > > ># ifconfig fxp0 > >fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > inet XXX.YYY.236.105 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast > > XXX.YYY.239.255 > > inet6 fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe65:d038%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > > atalk 12174.21 range 12174-12174 phase 2 broadcast 0.255 > > ether 00:d0:b7:65:d0:38 > > media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active > > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX > > 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP > > > >But trying to set full-duplex results in an error: > > > ># ifconfig fxp0 mediaopt full-duplex > >ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured > > > >My workaround is to have our network staff change my port on the > >switch to half-duplex, but I'm hoping to learn how to do this for > >future reference. Thanks. > > Try: > > ifconfig fxp0 media 100basetx mediaopt full-duplex Yup! I'm confirming this for the list. Thanks for the reply. I think I was spelling it "100baseTX" when I wasn't omitting the "media" completely. Having both and spelling both as the driver expects, does the trick. Thanks again. > > -DG > > David Greenman > Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org > President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com > Pave the road of life with opportunities. -- Fred Condo + fred@condo.chico.ca.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message