From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jul 3 23:12:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.gfit.net (ns.gfit.net [209.41.124.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 661EC14C59 for ; Sat, 3 Jul 1999 23:12:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Received: from paranor.embt.net (timembt.iinc.com [206.67.169.229]) by mercury.gfit.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id BAA04104 for ; Sun, 4 Jul 1999 01:12:34 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from tom@embt.com) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19990704021204.00728fb0@mail.embt.com> X-Sender: tembt@mail.embt.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.3 (32) Date: Sun, 04 Jul 1999 02:12:04 -0400 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Tom Embt Subject: PNIC problems: duplex contradiction & dropped packets Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am running a Kingston KNE110TX (82c169) card under FreeBSD 3.2-BETA connected to an Asante 8+2 switch. I have been having two (almost certainly related) problems: 1) The switch always seems to think the card is in half-duplex mode. The only way to get the switch's LEDs to show FDX is to use 'autoselect' but even then if I power cycle the switch it will show half duplex again. The LEDs on the card always show FDX, unless of course I manually set it to half. 2) When the BSD box is on a 100MB segment, anything more than minimal traffic will cause loss of data. For example, I can telnet into it OK, but upon running 'lptest' I will get dumped. Also I could FTP into it, but getting a large directory listing will cause the client to hang. I can do more testing and provide more information, but first I thought I'd see if this is a known problem. I've tried a few different cables, but not many. Anyone know what I'm looking at here? funky drivers.. bad hardware.. losing my mind??? later, Tom Embt tom@embt.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message