From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 26 13:50:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from vortex.wa4phy.net (cc449817-a.mrtnz1.ga.home.com [24.12.79.51]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1434D37B416 for ; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 13:49:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from vortex.wa4phy.net (localhost.wa4phy.net [127.0.0.1]) by vortex.wa4phy.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id fBQLnj116968; Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:49:45 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from sam@wa4phy.net) Message-ID: <3C2A45F9.EBF0C148@vortex.wa4phy.net> Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2001 16:49:45 -0500 From: Sam Drinkard Organization: You Gotta Be Kiddin! X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.5-PRERELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Allen Landsidel Cc: sthaug@nethelp.no, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.5 PRERELEASE - Call for testing References: <5.1.0.14.0.20011226125628.00b08e10@rfnj.org> <5.1.0.14.0.20011226141409.00b02048@rfnj.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well, having followed this thread for some bit, I gotta throw my $.02 worth in.. I'm one of those who has machines connected via a "dumb" 10baseT hub, and auto everything doesn't work. I think the whole point is that a certain amount of knowledge is required *before* one should attempt to build a network. Both the 4.5-Pre machine as well as the RH-7 box have identical nic's in them, but alas, *neither one* knows about the other one. Only a manual configuration of the one in the 4.5 machine is configurable. RH 7, with same card is not. It's MY dilemma, and despite all the chit-chat, what do you do when you *can't* configure a card manually, and it won't auto-negotiate? Sam To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message