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Date:      Wed, 3 Feb 1999 21:30:43 +0100 (CET)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        rene@canyon.demon.nl (Rene de Vries)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 100baseTX problems with the DE500 ethernet card
Message-ID:  <199902032030.VAA02247@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199902031901.UAA00372@canyon.demon.nl> from Rene de Vries at "Feb 3, 99 08:01:52 pm"

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As Rene de Vries wrote...

> The DE500 driver seems to have problems switching from 10baseT/UTP to
> 100baseTX. During boot the card (somehow) switches to 10baseT/UTP (shown on
> console as "de0: enabling 10baseT port" and verified by watching the HUP

If it makes you any happier: same thing here on one of my Alpha machines.
My K6/266 seems to connect at 100Mbit all the time. My other Alpha
(the axppci33) has a SRM console that recognises the DE500 and FreeBSD
goes 100mbit without troubles on that one.

> (switching one of its LEDs off)). When ifconfig 192.168.x.x media 100baseTX is
> run the console log shows "de0: enabling 100baseTX port", but the HUP does not
> seem to switch back to 100MBits. The same hardware and Win95 seem to work
> though. When I disconnect/reconnect the machine and the HUP it works neatly on
> 100Mbit. (The hup is a cheap Lanpro 10/100, the cabling is Cat5.)

Hub not hup. 

Instead of disconnect/reconnect of the cable for me the following works
in /etc/rc.local on the obnoxious Axp:

# this is horrible
echo "you don't wanna know: enabling 100baseT"
ifconfig de0 down
sleep 1
ifconfig de0 media 100baseTX
sleep 1
ifconfig de0 up

It is gross... 

Wilko
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