Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2000 00:43:27 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: David Hobley <davidh@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de0 autoselect not working! Message-ID: <20000221004326.M21720@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <38B0EB5D.1504C06@optushome.com.au>; from davidh@optushome.com.au on Mon, Feb 21, 2000 at 06:38:05PM %2B1100 References: <38B0EB5D.1504C06@optushome.com.au>
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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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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