Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 17:58:06 +0900 From: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: re driver problem (RTL8169 chipset) Message-ID: <445F081E.80900@micom.mng.net> In-Reply-To: <20060508085442.GH59504@funkthat.com> References: <445F000C.1080906@micom.mng.net> <20060508083001.GG59504@funkthat.com> <445F02E5.6010304@micom.mng.net> <20060508085442.GH59504@funkthat.com>
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John-Mark Gurney wrote: > Ganbold wrote this message on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 17:35 +0900: > >> John-Mark Gurney wrote: >> >>> Ganbold wrote this message on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 17:23 +0900: >>> >>> >>>> I'm having trouble to make my Netgear Gigabit PCI GA311 network card >>>> work in 1000baseTX in FreeBSD-6.1RC. It runs fine on 100baseTX mode with >>>> Cat5 cable, however it doesn't with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling in >>>> >>> Does it work at 1000baseTX w/ Cat5 cabling? >>> >>> >> I thought Cat5 only supports 100baseTX and I didn't test 1000baseTX w/ Cat5. >> > > Nope, 1000Base-T (no X) is speced for Cat5 cabling.. As per the 802.3 > spec 40.1: > 1000BASE-T signaling requires four pairs of Category 5 balanced cabling, > as specified in ISO/IEC 11801:1995 and ANSI/EIA/TIA-568-A (1995) and > tested for the additional performance parameters specified in 40.7 using > testing procedures defined in proposed ANSI/TIA/EIA TSB95. > Ok. > >> It is not working at 1000baseTX with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling. >> > > It's wierd that it works at 100Base-TX w/ Cat5, but not w/ Cat5e... > Is there differences in the cable length or something? Not much difference. > Have you tried > w/ just normal Cat5? > Ok, I will test it again in couple of days and let you know. Ganbold
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