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Date:      Sun, 12 Jul 1998 02:22:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>
To:        Mark D Smith <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com>
Cc:        msmith@3-cities.com, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: D-Link enet card question
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980712022146.2422i-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199807120524.WAA17299@revolution.3-cities.com>

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On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Mark D Smith wrote:

> > 
> > On Wed, 8 Jul 1998, Mark Smith wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, I got the Adaptec/Cogent Ana 6911A based on the 
> > > DEC 21143-PA chip and it DOESN'T like it!  It loads the
> > > driver fine but tells me that the link is down/ cable problem.
> > 
> > Try forcing the media type with
> > 
> > ifconfig de0 media 10BaseT/UTP
> > 
> > I have a lab of these cards (the 4-port versions) and the work fine, other
> > than they get REAL annoyed if you pull the ethernet cable out.
> 
> Nope, it doesn't work.

Um... try `ifconfig de0 down; ifconfig de0 up' afterwards.  I'm on the
verge of writing a script for this.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major


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