From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Jan 31 14:29:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA16114 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:29:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from heist.demon.co.uk (heist.demon.co.uk [158.152.187.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA16106 for ; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 14:29:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (from iain@localhost) by heist.demon.co.uk (8.8.4/8.8.4) id WAA07133; Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:27:09 GMT Message-ID: Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 22:27:09 +0000 From: iain@heist.demon.co.uk (Iain Baird) To: dg@root.com Cc: root@itol.com (Ralph R. Rye), freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Qustion About Intel EtherExpress 100B References: <199701300739.XAA23130@root.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.55e-PL15 Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199701300739.XAA23130@root.com>; from David Greenman on Jan 29, 1997 23:39:45 -0800 Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Greenman writes: > It will autoconfig full duplex and not work. We don't have support for > full duplex in any of the drivers yet. You must set your switch to forced > half duplex for now. By 'any' do you mean any Ethernet driver? Full duplex works fine here with the de0 driver and two Kingston KNE40BT cards connected with a crossover cable. The interface must be configured with the 'link1' parameter. Details below. Look, no collisions! iain iain@heist(554)% uname -sr FreeBSD 2.1.6.1-RELEASE iain@heist(565)% ident /sys/pci/if_de.c /sys/pci/if_de.c: $Id: if_de.c,v 1.29.2.7 1996/11/10 13:35:49 davidg Exp $ iain@heist(553)% dmesg | grep de0 de0 rev 17 int a irq 12 on pci0:14 de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 de0: address 00:c0:f0:14:c5:55 de0: enabling 10baseT port de0: enabling Full Duplex 10baseT port iain@heist(555)% grep _de0 /etc/sysconfig ifconfig_de0="inet 10.0.0.3 netmask 0xff000000 link1" iain@heist(555)% ftp wildcat Connected to wildcat.demon.co.uk. 220 wildcat.demon.co.uk FTP server (Version 6.00) ready. Name (wildcat:iain): 331 Password required for iain. Password: 230- NetBSD 1.2B (WILDCAT) #23: Mon Jan 27 23:39:23 GMT 1997 230- 230- Welcome to NetBSD! 230- 230 User iain logged in. Remote system type is UNIX. Using binary mode to transfer files. ftp> get big /dev/null local: /dev/null remote: big 200 PORT command successful. 150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 'big' (11816960 bytes). 226 Transfer complete. 11816960 bytes received in 10.07 seconds (1.12 Meg/s) iain@heist(563)% netstat -in Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll de0 1500 00.c0.f0.14.c5.55 155935 0 82721 1 0 de0 1500 10 10.0.0.3 155935 0 82721 1 0