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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To: David Hobley <davidh@optushome.com.au>
Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: de0 autoselect not working!
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* David Hobley <davidh@optushome.com.au> [000221 00:10] wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> perhaps someone could help me with a small problem with
> the de driver.
> 
> When I boot FreeBSD (3.4) it correctly recognises my 
> Ethernet Card (de0) and selects the media type to
> "autoselect". After booting however I get a regular
> stream of messages:
> 
> de0: enabling 10baseT port
> ...
> 
> If I leave that as is, it eventually changes its' mind
> and says
> de0: enabling 10base2/BNC
> 
> At which point the network stops working.
> 
> I can workaround this by typing after boot:
> # ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP
> 
> Is there a standard way to automate this? Or is
> this version of the driver confused?
> 
> I have tried to search the FreeBSD web site mail
> archives, but the discs crashed recently, and the
> search facilities don't appear to be up yet.

The most simple way is just to include that in /etc/rc.conf like so:

ifconfig_de0="inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffc media 10baseT/UTP"

:)

I'm unsure why the driver can detect a problem with UTP but not
coax so that it could switch back.

-Alfred


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