Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 16:50:46 +0300 From: Odhiambo Washington <wash@iconnect.co.ke> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rl0 autoselect bug Message-ID: <20001030165046.E3212@poeza.iconnect.co.ke> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010301403550.600-100000@athena.za.net>; from "Justin Stanford" on Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 02:05:11PM %2B0200 References: <20001030134742.A39296@draenor.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010301403550.600-100000@athena.za.net>
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* Justin Stanford <jus@security.za.net> [20001030 15:05]: =>The card's seem to perform perfectly fine once ifconfig has been used to =>force the cards to 10mbit - this just has to be done on every boot. Then it is possible to force that in rc.conf (if you're not gonna buy another card!) using -mediaopt. I've seen very informed comments in this list that rl are not good cards. Pls search the lists => =>Is this a bug in the driver, anyone? I would think so, as the card works =>fine under Linux... Maybe it is..I cannot attest to that either.. =>-- =>Justin Stanford =>082 7402741 =>jus@security.za.net =>www.security.za.net =>IT Security and Solutions => => =>On Mon, 30 Oct 2000, Marc Silver wrote: => =>> Hi Jus, =>> =>> I experienced the same problem. We eventually opted to use different =>> cards (Intel EtherExpress Pro's) as we weren't getting great performance =>> out of the rl's either... =>> =>> Cheers, =>> Marc =>> =>> On Mon, Oct 30, 2000 at 12:32:38PM +0200, Justin Stanford wrote: =>> > Has anyone else noticed a problem on 10mbit networks with a NIC using the =>> > rl driver that fails to autoselect properly and uses 100mbit? I have two =>> > such cases on the same network, two different machines and FreeBSD =>> > versions (4.0-STABLE and 4.1.1-STABLE). I use ifconfig to force 10mbit. =>> > =>> > Regards, =>> > jus =>> > =>> > -- =>> > Justin Stanford =>> > 082 7402741 =>> > jus@security.za.net =>> > www.security.za.net =>> > IT Security and Solutions =>> => => => =>To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org =>with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -Wash -- Odhiambo Washington Inter-Connect Ltd., wash@iconnect.co.ke 5th Flr Furaha Plaza Tel: 254 11 222604 Nkrumah Rd., Fax: 254 11 222636 PO Box 83613 MOMBASA, KENYA. No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. -Judge Gideon J. Tucker (contributed by Chris Johnston) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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