Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 15:38:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Vincent Poy <vince@venus.GAIANET.NET> To: Tom <tom@uniserve.com> 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.4.05.9904101536050.9928-100000@venus.GAIANET.NET> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9904101445110.19715-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
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On Sat, 10 Apr 1999, Tom wrote: > 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. Interesting... All this time, I thought I had a case of bad luck with cards or something. 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 /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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