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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

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