Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:37:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: "disable 'auto select'" message Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.00.9808181537030.19286-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199808182139.OAA00507@resnet.uoregon.edu>
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On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, David Petrou wrote: > > > Hi. In my dmesg I see: > > > > > > utp/tx[*tx*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address [...] > > > > > > I'd like to know why auto select is bad and why I should disable it. > > > This message isn't very informative and a glance through the kernel > > > code doesn't reveal anything more to me. > > > > I think it confuses the driver. What device is this, anyway? I think > > it's a 3com but I'm not sure. > > Yeah, it's a: > vx0 <3COM 3C595 Fast Etherlink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:10:0 > > My net works, so by "confusing the driver," do you mean poorer > performance? I don't want to disable auto select because then I'll > have trouble (I think) when I move my machine between 10 and 100 Mbs > hubs. I imagine I'll have to reconfigure my card every time I switch. Possibly. The 595 may not correctly support autoselection (which shouldn't be confused with autonegotiation). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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