From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 17:46:27 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ED6737B405 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:46:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hostname.org (200-161-76-110.dsl.telesp.net.br [200.161.76.110]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44C2943E3B for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 17:46:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fabio@hostname.org) Received: from hostname.org [192.168.1.2] by core.hostname.org Message-ID: <3D28DF45.9050209@hostname.org> Disposition-Notification-To: Fabio Yasusi Yamamoto Date: Sun, 07 Jul 2002 21:39:33 -0300 From: Fabio Yasusi Yamamoto User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020529 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P." Cc: barbish@a1poweruser.com, FBSDQ Subject: Re: My Intel EtherExpress only works on direct cross connection. References: <007f01c225e7$e38962a0$2be2910c@fbccarthage.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Kinsey, DaleCo, S.P. wrote: >WAY OT... > > but, I recently picked up a switch that says >it doesn't care if it's a crossover cable or not... >supposedly makes it possible to 'uplink' without >dedicating a port to this function... > >As to the original posters problem, only advice >I can think of is to check media type settings.... > >KDK > > when i use a crossover to connect to another computer, it only work at 10mbps. i have tryied almost every combination of speed and duplex. it only works on 10mbs half/full duplex crossover cable to another computer. i can't undestand !! how the network card can know if i use a direct connection between 2 pc, or use a switch hub using single cable. ps: autodetect speed/media fail ( on switch/hub ), maybe because the network card is unable to receive any packets.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message