From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Apr 2 06:05:15 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id GAA00957 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 06:05:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA00944 for ; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 06:05:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from dbws.etinc.com (dbws.etinc.com [204.141.95.130]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id JAA23279; Wed, 2 Apr 1997 09:08:02 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970402091819.00695824@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Wed, 02 Apr 1997 09:18:26 -0500 To: Matt Thomas , Jaye Mathisen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: dennis Subject: Re: Does de driver do 100MBIT Full Duplex? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 10:10 PM 4/1/97 -0500, Matt Thomas wrote: >At 05:18 PM 4/1/97 -0800, Jaye Mathisen wrote: >> >> >>I'm not sure exactly how the process works, but the SMC card (dual >>etherpower 10/100), seems unable to kick into full-duplex mode with my >>Linkswitch. > >Is that the 9334bdt? What version of FreeBSD? > >>Does the driver support it? ifconfig shows a "Simplex" flag, but if >>I remember correctly, that was something to do with if a card could read >>it's own output on coax or somesuch. > >Correct. Note the driver in NetBSD is in much better shape than the >current FreeBSD driver. (it isn't hard to get the NetBSD driver running >under FreeBSD). >-- >Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com >3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html >Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message > Is the driver that you send me directly for 2.1.7 (that worked beautifully) in 2.2.1R? If not, WHY NOT! It seems that the 10/100 clone cards we have, that worked with that driver, do not work in 2.2.1R Dennis