From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 9 10:16:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cypherpunks.ai (cypherpunks.ai [209.88.68.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BC8D37B401 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 10:16:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from grolsch.ai (grolsch.ai [209.88.68.214]) by cypherpunks.ai (Postfix) with ESMTP id A40D949; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 14:16:03 -0400 (AST) Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 14:16:03 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" To: "Jeffrey J. Mountin" , Stefan Molnar Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? Message-ID: <107550000.979064163@grolsch.ai> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.20010108174340.020ee910@207.227.119.2> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.0.6b2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --On Monday, January 08, 2001 17:53:12 -0600 "Jeffrey J. Mountin" wrote: > At 08:17 AM 1/8/01 -0800, Stefan Molnar wrote: > >> I have noticed that the eepro does not like some hubs/switches. >> I have a netgear 8 port 10mb switch, and the eepro just goes to >> a crawl with the same things you see. I have tried over a dozen >> eepro cards (had this switch for almost 2 years), and countless >> ethernet cables. I bought a 4 port hub, connected the xover to the >> swtitch and the eepro on the hub, and bamf, those problems went >> away. The tulip cards that most of the eepros replaced worked >> very happly. > > Almost every 8255x card works just fine with a Netgear FS105 here in all > modes. Say "almost" since I don't have an old 82556 card around. One of > systems has a newer version on an Asus A7V running -stable, so doubt the > problem is with FBSD or the card. Good cables and nailing down the modes > fix most problems. Most likely a hardware or disposition, as we seem to > say "doesn't like" when problems like this crop up, issue here. I just replied to Jonathan Lemon's mail describing why I think it doesn't look like bad cabling, wrong duplex/speed settings or bad hubs. I'm fairly convinced that my fxp cards are to blame. Either a bad batch of cards or a rather marginal design that doesn't like hubs (or cheap switches)... Cheers, Jeroen To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message