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Date:      Mon, 16 Mar 1998 10:19:13 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen <erakupa@kk.etx.ericsson.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP" not working
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980316101858.26071W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803160811.JAA13771@kk662.kk.etx.ericsson.se>

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On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> I want to set my Digital Fast Ethernet card to 10 Mbit/s and
> therefore I have something like
>     "ifconfig_de0=".... media 10baseT/UTP"
> in /etc/rc.conf.
> 
> The driver reports (see the output below) that it is now in 10 Mbit/s
> mode and "ifconfig de0" says the same.
> 
> But the LED on the ethernet card (and Sun which is the gateway, i.e.
> 192.168.15.129) says the card is in 100 Mbit/s mode.
> 
> Everything was working in 2.2.2-RELEASE with those ugly link[0-2]
> flags, but this new media thing does not work for me.
> 
> Any ideas how to fix this? Upgrade to 2.2.6-BETA?

Try forcing the server down to 10mbit.  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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