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Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 18:04:42 -0500
From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: Rainer Enders <Rainer.Enders@erilab.com>
Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: DEC DE500-BA 21143 in Full-Duplex mode
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On Thu, Oct 08, 1998 at 03:01:31PM -0700, Rainer Enders woke me up to tell me:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having problems running the DEC DE500-BA 21143
> in full duplex mode. All I can achieve is 100TX. I do this
> by specifying:  media 100BASETX in rc.conf.
> 
> Beside that the card doesn't seem to understand FD commands
> at all. I tried all the commands that I could find in /sys/pci/if_de.c
> without success.

man 4 de
...
The de driver supports the following media types:
...
100baseTX        Set 100Mbps (fast ethernet) operation
...
The de driver supports the following media options:
full-duplex      Set full duplex operation

so ifconfig de0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex


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