From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 18 6:37:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp05.wxs.nl (smtp05.wxs.nl [195.121.6.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A47437B416 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 06:37:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from dds.nl ([213.10.151.186]) by smtp05.wxs.nl (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id GQ51YH02.4P6; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:37:29 +0100 Message-ID: <3C483328.8020702@dds.nl> Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:37:28 +0100 From: "Alex (DDS)" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20011019 Netscape6/6.2 X-Accept-Language: nl, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Ethernet card configurations 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 I have ADSL from a local ISP. The connection get disconnected every now and then. The ethernet card must be on 10Mbit and half-duplex. The modem they provided requires this. The ethernet card is question is ed0. (I also provided xl0 as a second option) Even do my switch tels me ed0 is at 10Mb/s and half duplex and xl0 is at 100Mbit and full duplex, i still like to know how to change this. ifconfig gives: ed0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.150 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 inet6 fe80::24f:49ff:fe07:d152%ed0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:4f:49:07:d1:52 xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.31.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.31.255 inet6 fe80::201:2ff:fedc:30b3%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 ether 00:01:02:dc:30:b3 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active rc.conf gives: ifconfig_ed0="inet 10.0.0.150 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_xl0="inet 192.168.31.2 netmask 255.255.255.0" dmesg: ed0: port 0x6000-0x601f irq 10 at device 6.0 on pci0 ed0: address 00:4f:49:07:d1:52, type NE2000 (16 bit) xl0: <3Com 3c905C-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0x6100-0x617f mem 0xf0800000-0xf080007f irq 9 at device 7.0 on pci0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:01:02:dc:30:b3 I have tried to add 'mediaopt half-duplex' and 'media 10baseT/UDP' to the rc.conf strings but non seems to work on both network card.. Any help would be appreciated very much. Tanks, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message