From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 28 14:12: 8 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl (prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl [194.29.178.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B93637B41E for ; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 14:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: by prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 1368) id 606A17CEF6; Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:12:02 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 23:12:02 +0100 From: Grzegorz Czaplinski To: Gary Southerly Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel Ethernet card. Message-ID: <20011128231202.A17296@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> References: <20011128211741.I14806@prioris.mini.pw.edu.pl> <200111282058.fASKwPx83145@cx933506-c.chnd1.az.home.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200111282058.fASKwPx83145@cx933506-c.chnd1.az.home.com>; from gsouther@cx933506-c.chnd1.az.home.com on Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:58:24PM -0700 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 On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 01:58:24PM -0700, Gary Southerly wrote: > You can use "/sbin/ifconfig" to change the settings. IE: > ifconfig fxp0 media 10baseT/utp > I have just gave it a try. Setting manualy works like a charm. ;> > This would set it to 10Mb. I believe you could set it in the > /etc/rc.conf file by adding "media 10baseT/UTP" in the line > "ifconfig_fxp0=" to set it at boot time. > for example: > ifconfig_fxp0="inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP" This does not work. Dos not bring the interface up. The reason I am asking the question is because I have an old 3Com 509B ISA card. This card is 10baseT. Recently I got a new Intel card. I recompiled my kernel with those options: device miibus # MII bus support device fxp # Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558) After reboot the system brings the interface up, but it is slow. When I ping the nearest (my ISP) gateway I get 0% packet loss, but something behind brings me 50%-60% packet loss. The card by default is 100baseT so I thought that could be the problem and decided to change it to 10baseT. I haven't noticed any such problem with my old 3Com card. Any Ideas? Do they do anything on the gateway that slows my connection? Best regards and thanks for the help, gregory -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message