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From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu>
To: Andrew Heybey <ath@bellcore.com>
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Subject: Re: Over-eager DE500-XA ethernet card
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for 10mb, give -link2 to ifconfig, also in 'extra ifconfig options' when
using sysinstall. 

-c

On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Andrew Heybey wrote:

> 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
>