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From: Rainer Enders <Rainer.Enders@erilab.com>
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Subject: Re: DEC DE500-BA 21143 in Full-Duplex mode
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Andrew Gallatin wrote:

> Rainer Enders writes:
>  > balder# ifconfig de0 media 100TX_FD
>  > ifconfig: unknown media subtype: 100TX_FD
>  > balder# ifconfig de0 media 100TX-FD
>  > ifconfig: unknown media subtype: 100TX-FD
>  >
>
> You are specifying the media incorrectly.  Read the de(4) man
> page.  You want to say:
>         ifconfig de0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
>
> See if that helps.
>
> In my case (*BSD/alpha, Digital Personal Workstation 500au), the
> driver recognizes the options, but doesn't know enough about the
> hardware to actually throw it into full-duplex mode.
>
> Drew
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer  http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin
> Duke University                         Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu
> Department of Computer Science          Phone: (919) 660-6590

Hi,

yes I have that issue too. FreeBSD says: media: 100baseTX <full-duplex> status:
active
but it doesn't look like that the card actually runs at full-duplex. Is there any
way
to figure it out?

Is there any better NIC card that works all right in full-duplex under FreeBSD?

Rainer.


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