From owner-freebsd-sparc Tue Nov 19 6: 4:43 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FA3D37B401 for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:04:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from iaces.com (horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAF0843E4A for ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 06:04:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Received: from iaces.com (ptroot.iaces.com [204.147.87.124]) by iaces.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gAJE4dEj022537; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:04:41 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from proot@iaces.com) Message-ID: <3DDA44F7.3020500@iaces.com> Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:04:39 -0600 From: Paul Root User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olafur Osvaldsson Cc: freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: network errors References: <20021119131950.GM19604@isnic.is> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org What kind of switch are you plugging into? Older versions of Solaris and older versions of code on Cisco Catalysts have a real hard time playing together. Olafur Osvaldsson wrote: > Hi, > A short time ago I installed FreeBSD to sparc for the first time, everything > has been excellent except when I tried to set the hme interface to 100MB-FD > in the ifconfig setup at startup from rc.conf. > When I try that the interface goes up and I can ping the localhost and the local > IP address but am unable to get any traffic to or from the network, the switch > also shows the interface as up but sees no traffic from it. > > If I on the other hand start the machine without the media and mediaopt flags > for ifconfig in rc.conf and run "ifconfig media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" > by hand after startup I have no problems and the interface is fixed to that > speed and duplex. > > System info: > > FreeBSD fundinn.rhnet.is 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Nov 19 11:45:38 GMT 2002 root@fundinn.rhnet.is:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC sparc64 > > on Sun netra T1 > > If you need more info just ask... > > /Oli > -- Paul T. Root E/Mail: proot@iaces.com 600 Stinson Blvd, Fl 1S PAG: +1 (877) 693-7155 Minneapolis, MN 55413 WRK: +1 (612) 664-3385 NIC: PTR FAX: +1 (612) 664-4779 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message