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From: Andrew Heybey <ath@bellcore.com>
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Subject: Over-eager DE500-XA ethernet card
Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:39:07 -0500
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My 10/100 combo ethernet card insists on trying to do 100 MBit despite
being plugged into a 10BaseT network.

I just tried to boot 2.2-960323-SNAP on a Dell XPS-133 with a DEC
DE500-XA PCI ethernet card.  This is a 10BaseT/100BaseTX combo card,
and I want to use it on a 10BaseT network.  However, the driver
insists on putting the card in 100BaseTX mode which doesn't work very
well.

If the card is not plugged into the network, it is put into 100Mbit
mode at boot time (the "100" LED comes on and the driver prints
"enabling 100baseTX UTP port").  If it is plugged into a 10BaseT hub
at boot time, the "100" LED doesn't come on until the machine tries to
transmit (or maybe when the iface is ifconfig'd--I'm not sure).

I gather from reading the source that I can force 10Mb or 100Mb mode
via "ifconfig de0 altphys" but that didn't help when running
sysinstall...

Has anyone seen this before?

andrew