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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] 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 31 Jul 1996 07:47:14 PDT."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:10:01 -0700
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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