Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 00:05:19 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (David Dawes) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA is now available. Message-ID: <199611140805.AAA21397@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199611140652.RAA07940@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> from David Dawes at "Nov 14, 96 05:52:07 pm"
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> >> DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc) > > > >I know of _no_ current production DC21140 card that will work with > >the if_de.c driver. SMC has discontiued the SMC9332DST, and makeing > >the SMC9332BDT work requires hacking the driver. This is also true > >of the D-Link DFE-500TX, Kingston KNE100TX, and the Compex board. > > I have a Digital DE500-AA here which the driver reports uses the DC21140A. > It works fine with 2.2 (but not with 2.1.5). The only question I have > about it is, is it supposed to auto-detect full duplex 100Mb/s connections? > It reports: > > de0 <Digital DC21140A Fast Ethernet> rev 32 int a irq 10 on pci0:8 > de0: DE500-AA DC21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0 > de0: address 00:00:f8:01:e7:8f > de0: link up: enabling 100baseTX port > > regadless of whether the other end is full or half duplex. The output > error rate seems higher when the other end is full duplex (BTW, the > other end is a 100TX card in a Cisco Catalyst 3000 switch). >From a discussion I just had with David the if_de.c driver does not correctly do full duplex, turn off full duplix on your Catalyst port and things should be much happier. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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