Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1998 09:50:03 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: various PCI Ethernet cards v.s. SMC Ethernet switches.... Message-ID: <199804161650.JAA19054@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 16 Apr 1998 12:11:58 EDT." <199804161611.MAA07218@brain.zeus.leitch.com>
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>As for the switch ports, well they're very difficult to get wrong. >There's a dip-switch to set full/half duplex, and a light on the monitor >display to confirm what mode it's in. If that's the case, then the switch almost certainly doesn't support NWAY autonegotiation. This means that you'll have to set the FreeBSD side manually to match the switch port. The only driver that I know for certain works completely correctly in all cases of manual settings is the fxp driver. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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