From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jan 25 17: 6:58 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (rwcrmhc52.attbi.com [216.148.227.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CA6DC37B402 for ; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:06:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc52.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20020126010650.INMK3578.rwcrmhc52.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:06:50 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0Q16nN80267; Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:06:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200201260106.g0Q16nN80267@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Kris Kennaway Cc: TD790@aol.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tcarroll@codebig.com Subject: Re: if_rl autodetect problems? In-reply-to: <20020125154158.A70241@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <16b.7bc23bd.298345d9@aol.com> <20020125154158.A70241@xor.obsecurity.org> Comments: In-reply-to Kris Kennaway message dated "Fri, 25 Jan 2002 15:41:58 -0800." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 17:06:49 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If memory serves me right, Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 06:35:53PM -0500, TD790@aol.com wrote: > >=20 > > A MB with an onboard RTL8100 autonegotiates a 100Mb/s FDX connection ok o= > n a=20 > > crossover an a 10/100 switch, but it doesnt detect a 10Mb/s hub at all in= > =20 > > 4.4-RELEASE. Is this a known problem? > > The realtek is known to be a crap NIC, yes :) Autodetection is one of > its failings. I seem to remember a driver probe message in -CURRENT (not MFC-ed IIRC) that at least pointed this out as a problem...we ought to MFC this change after the release because this comes up from time to time. Bruce. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message