From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 16 17:38:09 2005 Return-Path: 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 980CE16A4CE for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:38:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ns1.tiadon.com (SMTP.tiadon.com [69.27.132.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F0B4143D48 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:38:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kdk@daleco.biz) Received: from [69.27.131.0] ([69.27.131.0]) by ns1.tiadon.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.211); Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:38:17 -0600 Message-ID: <42386EFE.2080508@daleco.biz> Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 11:38:06 -0600 From: Kevin Kinsey User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041210 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: JM References: <6.2.0.14.0.20050316101045.01fc3be8@localHost> In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050316101045.01fc3be8@localHost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 16 Mar 2005 17:38:17.0632 (UTC) FILETIME=[F03DBA00:01C52A4E] cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 5.3 & IBM PC Server 325 Type 8639-1RY X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 17:38:09 -0000 JM wrote: > I have installed 5.3 several times and I am using the built in > nic an PCI AMD card. > I can not seem to change the card to full-duplex using ifconfig > or the built in sysinstall. I noticed there appeared to be other > problems with IBM machines. > My ? is this a recognized problem or something new? > > My server also has dual processors in it. > > Thanks for your time. Hi, JM! Thanks for posting. I'm not sure that I'm the guy to help you, but I just wanted to point out that it might be helpful to give us the output of `uname -a` as suggested in the default /etc/motd (that you should see when you log in), and the relevant parts of `dmesg`, especially any mention of the PCI bus, drivers for these NICs and anything that looks like it might be an error. Also, if you want to check whether the "problem" has been reported by anyone else, there is a search interface on the website (www.freebsd.org) that might help you find any problem reports dealing with a specific driver or hardware device. I hope you get it working soon. Kevin Kinsey