From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 24 03:34:09 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 460A316A4CE for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:34:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com (smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com [66.163.168.180]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EDAF243D55 for ; Thu, 24 Feb 2005 03:34:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Received: from unknown (HELO optimator.noacks.org) (noacks@swbell.net@70.240.176.125 with login) by smtp801.mail.sc5.yahoo.com with SMTP; 24 Feb 2005 03:34:08 -0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 034C561D2; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:34:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from optimator.noacks.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (optimator.noacks.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 89457-03; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:34:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from compgeek.noacks.org (compgeek [192.168.1.10]) by optimator.noacks.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B6136139; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:34:04 -0600 (CST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by compgeek.noacks.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j1O3Y3c0008795; Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:34:04 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from noackjr@alumni.rice.edu) Message-ID: <421D4B2B.9020702@alumni.rice.edu> Date: Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:34:03 -0600 From: Jon Noack User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20050202) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Nelson References: <20050224020702.51073.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <421D46E0.6090001@alumni.rice.edu> <20050224033053.GN253@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20050224033053.GN253@dan.emsphone.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at noacks.org 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 Reply-To: noackjr@alumni.rice.edu 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 03:34:09 -0000 On 02/23/05 21:30, Dan Nelson wrote: > 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. OK -- makes sense. I run em and fxp cards and noted that em(4) listed both while fxp(4) listed only full-duplex. Confusing... Jon