From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Nov 14 23: 2:46 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 4E34737B401 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:02:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from cfcl.com (cpe-24-221-172-174.ca.sprintbbd.net [24.221.172.174]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E44743E42 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:02:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Received: from [192.168.254.205] ([192.168.254.205]) by cfcl.com (8.12.6/8.11.1) with ESMTP id gAF73F2n002527 for ; Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:03:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rdm@cfcl.com) Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: X-Mailer: Eudora for Macintosh! Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:02:39 -0800 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Rich Morin Subject: 100Base-T problem? Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" 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 I am trying to get my FreeBSD system to work with 100Base-T. It works fine with 10Base-T, but when I put in any of several 100Base-T cards, it fails to work. Interestingly, the lights on the card and on the hub both indicate that the 100Base-T card is connecting. I am running a fairly vanilla PC: CPU: AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor (300.68-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x58c Stepping = 12 Features=0x8021bf AMD Features=0x80000800 I recently upgraded from FreeBSD 4.5 to 4.7, but I don't think this is relevant to the problem at hand. Here are some lines from an unsuccessful (in terms of networking) boot -v, using a Netgear 100Base-TX card: ... dc0: <82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xdd800000-0xdd8000ff irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 dc0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:5e:89:b2 miibus0: on dc0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: OUI 0x001018, model 0x0021, rev. 2 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto bpf: dc0 attached ... isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices BIOS Geometries: ... Here are some lines from a successful (in terms of networking) boot -v, using an SMC 10Base-TX card: ... de0: port 0xb800-0xb87f mem 0xdd800000-0xdd80007f irq 10 at device 11.0 on pci0 de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 de0: address 00:00:c0:63:b2:f2 bpf: de0 attached ... isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices de0: enabling 10baseT port <- note additional line BIOS Geometries: ... I have also tried a couple of Farallon cards (de0 driver, IIRC) with no success. Clues and/or suggestions are solicited... -r -- email: rdm@cfcl.com; phone: +1 650-873-7841 http://www.cfcl.com/rdm - my home page, resume, etc. http://www.cfcl.com/Meta - The FreeBSD Browser, Meta Project, etc. http://www.ptf.com/dossier - Prime Time Freeware's DOSSIER series http://www.ptf.com/tdc - Prime Time Freeware's Darwin Collection To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message