Date: Mon, 12 May 2003 11:37:46 +0100 (BST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Gavin=20Kenny?= <gavinkenny@yahoo.co.uk> To: Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: xe problems [was: Re: what is /var/empty] Message-ID: <20030512103746.47771.qmail@web41704.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20030510130008.GA8616@tuatara.fishballoon.org>
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I have tried but I am not confident I am getting the command right. To force into 100Mbps I type as root: ifconfig xe0 media 100baseTX the result I get is: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Invalid argument What should I type? many thanks Gavin p.s. did the FBSD4.4 version of the xe driver support 100Mbps as well? --- Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd@fishballoon.org> wrote: > On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 04:43:29PM +0100, Gavin > Kenny wrote: > > OK nearly got my xe card working, foregot to > enable > > pccard in rc.conf (Doh) > > > > however dmesg says the card is 100Mbps capable and > > seems to load the driver but then prints the > following > > two lines: > > > > module_register: module pccard/xe already exists! > > linker_file_sysinit "if_xe.ko" failed to register! > 17 > > > > Anyone got any ideas what these mean? > > This seems to happen when you have a driver compiled > into your kernel that > something (presumably pccardd in this case) later > tries to load again as a > module. I'm pretty sure it's harmless. > > > The card can be configured and runs at 10Mbps, but > I > > can't get it to run at 100Mbps which is crucial. > Does > > this driver run at 100Mbps? > > The driver is quite happy with 100Mbps, but the > Xircom cards' auto-sensing > doesn't always work with some hubs/switches. Have > you tried forcing the > interface into 100Mbps mode rather than leaving it > to autoselect? > > Scott > > -- > =========================================================================== > Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may > soar, but weasels > Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get > sucked into jet engines" > scott at fishballoon.org | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon __________________________________________________ Yahoo! Plus For a better Internet experience http://www.yahoo.co.uk/btoffer
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