From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 03:31:01 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0162916A4CE; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:31:01 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EDF943D3F; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:31:00 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) id j1O3UsAZ093628; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:30:54 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:30:54 -0600 From: Dan Nelson To: Jon Noack Message-ID: <20050224033053.GN253@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20050224020702.51073.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <421D46E0.6090001@alumni.rice.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <421D46E0.6090001@alumni.rice.edu> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org cc: Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5-STABLE, MSI KT880 , fxp and SCB timeouts X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:31:01 -0000 In the last episode (Feb 23), Jon Noack said: > On 02/23/05 20:06, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > > My last motherboard burned down to ashes so I got myself a brand > >(after 2 weeks) new MSI KT880. I am getting some weird results. > > > > 1) fxp intel etherxpress 10/100 network cards report SCB timeout > >as well as achieving ridiculously low transfer rates of 600 > >Bytes/second. Well, I got 10 KBytes/sec once but that does not count > >since a side box gets more than 50KB/s ;-) on the same hub. Oh, I've > >already switched hub ports, rj45 cables and fxp cards. > > Duplex mismatch? You say "hub" and not "switch", so you might need > to force the card to half-duplex. Oddly enough, the fxp(4) man page > doesn't include half-duplex as a media option. Surely it supports > it... Autodetection on ethernet detects both speed and duplex, and full-duplex and half-duplex are either/or, so if you force a speed and don't force full-duplex, you get half-duplex by default. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com