Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 16:19:20 -0800 From: Rainer Enders <renders@erilab.com> To: linux-tulip@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DEC DE500-BA support and 100TX how? Message-ID: <199802100019.QAA08153@willow.erilab.com>
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Hi, I have problems to get my servers working in 100TX mode. The DEC DE500-BA behaves different with different switching hubs. On the Cabletron SmartSwitch 6000 I can get it working with some funny procedure: - Boot it up with the port configured to 10 MBps fixed. So the network interface will come up. - Then switch the port to 100TX (force it). And then pull the cable off the port and put it back (1-2 times). - Then switch the port to autonegotiation or to 100TX (either will work from time to time and bring up the 100TX mode). - If this fails repeat the whole process until it works. With the BayStack 350 I don't have any luck with this procedure. I can't get it to work in 100TX mode neither forced nor autonegotiated. Now under Linux I can put options tulip options=3 in the conf.modules file which solves the problem. Is there anything similar I can do for FreeBSD? I'm running 2.2.5 now. Who is maintaining the drivers for FreeBSD for this NIC card? Thanks, Rainer. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe questions" in the body of the message
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