From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 5 4:39:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.tninet.se (sheridan.tninet.se [195.100.94.102]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2DB4337B41B for ; Sun, 5 May 2002 04:39:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pcmarpxy.tninet.se (bb-62-5-36-29.bb.tninet.se [62.5.36.29]) by sheridan.tninet.se (BMR ErlangTM/OTP 3.0) with ESMTP id 689796.598651.1020.1s7313803sheridan ; Sun, 05 May 2002 13:37:31 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Mark Rowlands To: jsa@pen.homeip.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: How do I shut off auto-negotiation on my NIC Date: Sun, 5 May 2002 13:38:57 +0200 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.4] References: <200205050610.g456AdH06620@pen.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <200205050610.g456AdH06620@pen.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200205051338.57729.mark.rowlands@minmail.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday 05 May 2002 8:10 am, John Andersen wrote: > On Friday 03 May 2002 09:59 am, Jeff Heath wrote: > > I'm a newbie to BSD. Installed 4.0 GENERIC on a Dell Optiplex with a > > 3Com 3c905b Ethernet card. > > > > If I connect the BSD machine to my Cisco 2610 router. It won't > > auto-negotiate to 10MB half-duplex > > > > Also, if I connect the BSD machine to the Cisco 2610 router after it > > negotiated to 10MB half-duplex, all is well. > > This is Cisco's fault. Their switches and routers just don't get along > with many auto-negotiate nics. But I doub't 3com is blameless > either. Often plugging a dumb hub beween the nic and the > router will solve the problem. > > I think ifconfig does some of these tasks. /sbin/ifconfig xl0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt half-duplex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message