From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 29 13:30:29 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1a.inr.net (mx1a.inr.net [198.77.208.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A19D162E5 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 13:30:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mylists@inr.net) Received: from wakko (wakko.inr.net [198.77.208.4]) by mx1a.inr.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id LAA00553 for ; Sat, 29 Jan 2000 11:30:40 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20000129163015.00a0f100@mx1a.inr.net> X-Sender: mylists@mx1a.inr.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2000 16:30:15 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "N.B. DelMore" Subject: 3C905 - Networking Problem Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On booting (v3.4) I see the following message: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> rev 0x00 int a irq 10 on pci0.17.0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:60:97:09:7a:9b xl0: autoneg not complete, no carrier (forcing half-duplex, 10Mbps) I can force it into 100Base-TX full-duplex in /etc/rc.conf; i.e. ifconfig_xl0="inet 198.77.208.10 netmask 255.255.255.128 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" but if I do so, my NFS partitions fail to mount. By experimentation I also discovered that if I change the configuration; e.g. ifconfig_xl0="inet 198.77.208.10 netmask 255.255.255.128" defaultrouter="198.77.208.1" hostname="mx1a.inr.net" linux_enable="YES" nfs_client_enable="YES" ifconfig_xl0="inet 198.77.208.10 netmask 255.255.255.128 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" or I add the following string to /etc/rc.local ifconfig xl0 inet 198.77.208.10 netmask 255.255.255.128 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex all appears to work ok, however, I am wondering why the card is improperly detected by the kernel during boot. Any one have any idea or how to fix it? Thank you. Noel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message