From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 17 17:32:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA12316 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:32:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from balernochs.edin.sch.uk (apogee.balernochs.edin.sch.uk [195.188.194.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA12128 for ; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 17:31:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from pl2@balernochs.edin.sch.uk) Received: from [195.188.194.38] by balernochs.edin.sch.uk (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id VAA18776; Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:24:11 GMT Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 21:24:11 GMT Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Peter Lennon Subject: de0 and half duplex Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Before I say anything else - thanks for FreeBSD - I don't see it said nearly often enough in the lists. It made our whole-school access to the Internet possible. I have a Pentium 133 box just upgraded to 2.2.5-RELEASE, with an SMC 10/100 PCI Etherpower card. I also have a switch with two 100mbps ports which only do half duplex (FYI, USR TotalSwitch, and they stopped developing it before they had the software fixed to do full duplex, grrrr.) Question. Reading between the lines in "man de" I put ifconfig_de0="inet 195.188.194.2 media 100baseTX -mediaopt full-duplex netmask 2 55.255.255.0" ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ in rc.conf During booting, I see complaints about ? Cable problem, no connection, however the thing appears to be satisfactorily connected by the time the login prompt appears. However, even though I have good connection (the machine is www.balernochs.edin.sch.uk, and you can see it fine), I see this when I do "ifconfig de0" de0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 195.188.194.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 195.188.194.255 atalk 5.249 range 2-10 phase 2 broadcast 0.255 ether 00:e0:29:06:00:82 media: 100baseTX status: no carrier # Can anyone throw any light on the problems during boot and the seemingly spurious " no carrier" message? Thanks Peter To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message