From owner-freebsd-net Mon Aug 28 15:24:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2A46337B424 for ; Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:24:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 10465 invoked by uid 1001); 28 Aug 2000 22:24:42 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 18:24:42 -0400 From: Brian Reichert To: Wes Peters Cc: Brian Reichert , Bill Fumerola , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Macronix NIC not up to snuff? Message-ID: <20000828182441.H8519@numachi.com> References: <20000828165847.A9262@numachi.com> <20000828170838.J33771@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000828173009.G8519@numachi.com> <39AAE64E.96584FB8@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre4i In-Reply-To: <39AAE64E.96584FB8@softweyr.com>; from wes@softweyr.com on Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:23:10PM -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 28, 2000 at 04:23:10PM -0600, Wes Peters wrote: > > > Force them with media or mediaopt, and force the duplex and speed > > > on the cisco and see if that helps. > > > > This might be a useful workaraound (which I'll try later), but it > > doesn't clear my worries that it's the NIC+OS combination that's > > wonky... > > No, it's the combination of the PHY on the switch vs. the PHY on the NIC. > What he gave you isn't a workaround, it's a solution to an endemic problem: > autodetection often doesn't work. If it doesn't work, no amount of wanting > it to work is going to fix the problem, so go fix the problem. Ok, I concede. I guess I'm lucky: the hundreds of combinations of NICs and switches/hubs I'm messed with over the years never gave this grief. Thanks for the advice, everyone... > -- > "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" > > Wes Peters Softweyr LLC > wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert reichert@numachi.com 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message