Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 03:48:23 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Cherie&John Carri" <cjcarri@earthlink.net>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: <kstewart@urx.com>, <rmoss@bigpond.net.au>, <backdoc@netdoor.com> Subject: RE: slooooow ping reply and 60% packet loss on 3c509 Message-ID: <008d01c12ee5$cb23e400$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20010826190617.007a7c40@earthlink.net>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: Cherie&John Carri [mailto:cjcarri@earthlink.net] >Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2001 7:06 PM >To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >Cc: kstewart@urx.com; tedm@toybox.placo.com; rmoss@bigpond.net.au; >backdoc@netdoor.com >Subject: Re: slooooow ping reply and 60% packet loss on 3c509 > > >First off, grateful thanks to Kent Stewart, Ted Mittelstaedt, Robert Moss, >and Darren for their replies. > > >2) Looked in /etc/rc.conf and found multiple entries for the non-existent >ep1, but none for ep0. Took out the wrong entries, put in the line >"ifconfig_ep0="inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP". >So my card should now be correctly set up and forced to 10MHz, half-duplex. > According to the ep driver, the 3c509b does not have a half/full duplex mode. Remove the "media 10baseT/UTP" section, and only use media options after reading the man page for the driver. > >Anyone have any more suggestions? I seem to have tried all the ones I got >or could think of. Um - I suggested that you try swapping the SMC card from your spare Windows machine to the BSD machine. I don't actually know if your SMC 1244 has a chipset that's supported in FreeBSD, so it may not be recognized, but it's worth a try. Incidentally, I searched the mailing list archives for >questions related to 3c509 cards, and found several messages relating >similar problems to mine, but apparently everyone else got their network to >work once they followed all the steps I took above. Unfortunately it hasn't >worked for me yet! Is it time to get another NIC, this one of the PCI >persuasion? > The 3c509 has never been a strong contender among the FreeBSD nic family, too many people burned by early version "non-b" cards. I try not to use them if I can. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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