Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 14:47:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> To: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> Cc: Vadim Belman <voland@plab.ku.dk>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>, FreeBSD Stable <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9904101445110.19715-100000@shell.uniserve.ca> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904101408210.9928-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET>
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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Vincent Poy wrote: (redirected to freebsd-questions again) > > I think everyrhing you need is typing 'man 4 de' and choosing the > > correct value for ifconfig's `media' parameter. If your switch > > operates using full duplex then corresonding value for `mediaopt' > > must be set. > > Thanks to you and everyone for their help. All I needed to do was > ifconfig de0 media 100BaseTX for the switch. The funny thing I can't > figure out is that our 100BaseT hub when the de0 card is plugged into it, > the de0 will detect as 10Bt and it won't communicate until I manually do > the media setting. Is there a reason, it won't negotiate with the 100BT > hub? Auto-negotiation is problematic, especially on the DEC based cards. It doesn't help when the etherswitch is doing auto-negotation too. Our Cabletron smart-switch-router always negotiates a half-duplex setting regardless of what duplex setting the card is doing. > Cheers, > Vince - vince@MCESTATE.COM - vince@GAIANET.NET ________ __ ____ > Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] > GaiaNet Corporation - M & C Estate / / / / | / | __] ] > Beverly Hills, California USA 90210 / / / / / |/ / | __] ] > HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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