Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:10:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> Cc: David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, FreeBSD Stable <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904101109160.9928-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9904101101020.15362-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Tom wrote:
> On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Vincent Poy wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, David Greenman wrote:
> >
> > > > Is the Intel PRO/100+ network card supported by FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE? Mine
> > > >has an Intel 82558B chip on it. If so, is it the 'fxp' driver that I need?
> > >
> > > Yes and yes.
> >
> > I must say that the Pro/100+ is fast. We recently tried both a
> > 10/100 card using the DEC chip and RealTek 8139 connected directly to a
> > Cisco 2924XL 10/100 Switch and it seems to only work at 10Mbps Half
> > Duplex. Anyway to force it into 100Mbps?
>
> Uhh... there are man pages for all this stuff. This also belongs on
> freebsd-questions, not freebsd-stable
>
> Something like "ifconfig de0 media 100BaseTX"
>
> Add "...mediaopt full-duplex" for highest performance.
I read the man for ifconfig before and it doesn't really give the
choices for options.
It just says:
Refer to the interfaces' driver
specific documentation or man page for a complete list of the
available types.
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