From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 3 17:03:34 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA03058 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:03:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA03051 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:03:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id RAA12067; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:03:01 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id RAA13299; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 17:03:01 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id SAA16098; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 18:02:59 -0700 Message-ID: <36B8F1C3.A1C4F2F7@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 18:02:59 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Wilko Bulte CC: Rene de Vries , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 100baseTX problems with the DE500 ethernet card References: <199902032030.VAA02247@yedi.iaf.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wilko Bulte wrote: > > 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: It sounds like Rene's hub won't switch once it's set the port type. Adding "media 100BaseTX" to the original ifconfig parameters may (or may not) take care of this problem. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message