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Date:      Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:31:02 +1100
From:      Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: PC-Card ethernet - one way talk problem
Message-ID:  <39FE6726.7A6055E5@quake.com.au>
References:  <39FD56F7.CF272E2D@quake.com.au> <20001030083509.P22110@fw.wintelcom.net>

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Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> * Kal Torak <kaltorak@quake.com.au> [001030 03:09] wrote:
> > Hiyas,
> >
> > Here is what I have run into with my laptop and pc-card ether
> > net device...
> > My specs are as follows:
> > IBM Thinkpad I Series
> > D-Link ethernet PC-Card "DFE-650"
> > FreeBSD 4.0
> >
> > After fixing the timeout bug this card was having with 4.0
> > and finally being able to give it an address and have it
> > communicate it only seems to work for out going traffic,
> > ifconfig says its running in Simplex mode, and my switch
> > displays it as being in Half-Duplex...
> >
> > I can ping all the machines on my network fine from the
> > laptop, but nothing can access it...
> 
> If you can ping then that means that the card can recieve packets.

I mean that it can ping out, but nothing can ping it...
so sure it recives data from a request it originated but
wont reply to other machines trying to comunicate with it...

> 
> > I installed win98 to see if maybe there was a problem
> > between the card and the switch but it worked perfectly
> > under windows... It dose come with a linux driver, Im
> > not sure if I can use that under FreeBSD or if that would
> > even help...
> >
> > I am at a loss what to do about this, any help would be
> > greatly appreciated!
> 
> Give us more information about your (mis)configuration.

What other info do you want?


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