From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 29 10:39:40 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DE9C15485 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:39:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (ind.alcatel.com 2.3 [OUT])) id KAA17842; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id KAA12433; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 10:34:37 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com (dyn7.utah.xylan.com) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA12854; Fri, 29 Oct 99 10:33:13 PDT Message-Id: <3819DA63.E3B68AC1@softweyr.com> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 11:33:23 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Nowlin Cc: Roger Hardiman , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2 problems with the linksys mx driver References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mike Nowlin wrote: > > > >Autonegotiation is failing. That happens in the Fast Ethernet world. > > >Buying better quality switches *may* help. ;^) > > > > Can you get any better than 3COM's top of the range stacks? > > I ran into a similar problem with a couple Linksys cards under both FBSD & > (ugh) Win95 -- telling the HP ProCurve 2424M to force 100BTX half-duplex > (didn't try full) fixed the problem.... Still seeing this autoneg problem > with my cheapy Linksys 100-only hub and my wife's Linksys card on '95... > > You'd figure that autoneg would work when everything's by the same > manufacturer.... :) But it's not, is just all from the same assembler. The cards and boxes are assembled from a bewildering supply of chips, all from different vendors. Ethernet is so nice, because it just works, except when it doesn't. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message