Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:10:01 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, darren@n1.wdc.net (Darren Bordelon) Subject: Re: "Jordan K. Hubbard": [Fwd: Genuine DEC 21140 card doesn't work] Message-ID: <199607311610.JAA01701@root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jul 1996 07:47:14 PDT." <24591.838824434@time.cdrom.com>
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>I am stumped by this one. We have several BSD machines, and all >have 10/100 or 10 mbs Digital PCI cards of one brand or another. >We have also used various brands on machines built for clients, >and all have worked great. Recently, Ingram was giving $100 back >on 5 packs of genuine Digital 21140 PCI cards (the DE500), and since >we had 5 machines to build, we ordered a box. > >Unfortunately, this card is always seen by BSD as a 100TX card, even >though the card is plugged to a 10mbs hub. What's more, at power on, the >card indicates that it is in 10mbs modes, yet BSD still wants to put it >into 100mbs mode. I have seen this happen on several mother boards, and >on several hubs, so it looks like BSD is just confused by the way >this card is giving speed sense information. Is there anyway around this? >Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. This a known bug in the driver. You will need to set the speed explicitly with the -link2 (link2 for 100Mbps) ifconfig option. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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