Date: Wed, 5 Aug 1998 08:27:15 +1100 (EDT) From: Andrew MacIntyre <andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au> To: Alex Helbig <alex@muse.org.au> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ACER 10/100 Ethernet Card in 2.2.7-RELEASE Message-ID: <Pine.OS2.3.95.980805081909.270A-100000@CENTRAL> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980803153919.009ee150@ada.somerville.qld.edu.au>
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On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Alex Helbig wrote:
> I am having some hassles with the above mentioned card. This card uses a
> digital 21140-AF chip which 2.2.7 recognises as de0. The card is 10/100
> autosensing.
{....}
> Since the upgrade I have installed and everything is working correctly,
> except that roughly every two seconds I get a message on the console saying:
> de0: link down: cable problem?
>
> But it all works! Any ideas why the error message?
>
> Points to note:
> * I am running up the box on a 10Mb segment not the 100Mb where it will
> eventually be.
> But the 3com card was quite happy yo move back and forth between speeds.
> * I never tried the DEC based card under 2.2.6 to know if the problem
> existed there too.
> * I have tried using ifconfig to set each of the LINK0-2 flags and no
> setting of this
> seems to make any difference.
The de driver requires use of the ifconfig "media" and "mediaopt" options
rather than the "link[0-2]" flag(s). The de manpage describes the
available settings.
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