From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 9 16:21:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00552 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 16:21:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from willow.erilab.com (mpk120.erilab.com [208.224.156.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00506 for ; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 16:20:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from renders@erilab.com) Received: from willow.erilab.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by willow.erilab.com (8.8.7/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA08153; Mon, 9 Feb 1998 16:19:20 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199802100019.QAA08153@willow.erilab.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: linux-tulip@cesdis1.gsfc.nasa.gov, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: DEC DE500-BA support and 100TX how? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 16:19:20 -0800 From: Rainer Enders Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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