From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jan 26 13:50:31 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca (rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca [129.97.232.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C283037B400 for ; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 13:50:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from munish@localhost) by rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0QLjQZ21274 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:45:26 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from munish) Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 16:45:26 -0500 From: Munish Chopra To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_rl autodetect problems? - more Message-ID: <20020126164526.A7576@rn-re116a13.uwaterloo.ca> Mail-Followup-To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG References: <17.2234254c.29846092@aol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17.2234254c.29846092@aol.com>; from TD790@aol.com on Sat, Jan 26, 2002 at 02:42:10PM -0500 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 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message