Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:45:26 -0500 From: Munish Chopra <mchopra@engmail.uwaterloo.ca> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_rl autodetect problems? - more Message-ID: <20020126164526.A7576@rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca> In-Reply-To: <17.2234254c.29846092@aol.com>; from TD790@aol.com on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:42:10PM -0500 References: <17.2234254c.29846092@aol.com>
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:42:10PM -0500, TD790@aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 01/25/2002 6:42:32 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> kris@obsecurity.org writes:
>
> > >
> > > A MB with an onboard RTL8100 autonegotiates a 100Mb/s FDX connection ok
> on
> > a
> > > crossover an a 10/100 switch, but it doesnt detect a 10Mb/s hub at all
> in
> > > 4.4-RELEASE. Is this a known problem?
> >
> > The realtek is known to be a crap NIC, yes :) Autodetection is one of
> > its failings.
> >
> > kris
> >
>
> That may in fact be true, however since they all detect properly when I pop a
> LINUX drive on the system, it does point to a driver problem.
>
> The media stuff can be pretty cryptic if you're not famiar with it (which Im
> not), so if anyone could point at what to look at I'd appreciate it.
>
> Dennis
Well, man ifconfig is usually alright.
Basically, I usually had to do an 'ifconfig rl0 -media 10BaseT/UTP' (as
I was on a 10MBit HUB), and an 'ifconfig rl0 -mediaopt half-duplex'.
I'm not sure whether most of this was because of my crappy HUB or my
crappy NIC, but it fixed things anyway.
--
Munish Chopra The FreeBSD NVIDIA Driver Initiative
http://nvidia.netexplorer.org
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