Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:40:49 +0200
From:      Thomas Novin <thnov@thalamus.se>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Cc:        Matt Johnson <mattj@maine.rr.com>
Subject:   Re: Problems with the xl driver or 3Com cards?
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020815093657.02e498b0@pop.thalamus.se>
In-Reply-To: <B6212201-AFD6-11D6-8FEA-00306585BF9A@maine.rr.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At 18:34 2002-08-14 -0400, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>I've tried everything, and I'm really lost for answers here. I have a
>FreeBSD box which has a 3Com Etherlink XL in it. A while back, I got a
>new 100mbps switch to replace my old 10mbps hub. I noticed that despite
>now having a faster network hub, my FreeBSD machine was still unable to
>get speeds of more than 200 or 300K/s.  This only happened when the
>FreeBSD machine was receiving. Transmitting worked fine.

Maybe duplex settings. Use 'man xl' and figure out how to change duplex=20
settings. Seems like autonegotiation doesn't work OK.



--
Thomas Novin =B7 thnov@thalamus.se =B7=
 http://xyz.pp.se/~thnov/pgp_thalamus.asc
System Engineer =B7 Thalamus Consulting AB =B7 http://www.thalamus.se
V: +46 (0)431 445400 =B7 F: +46 (0)431 445410 =B7 GSM: +46 (0)704 280382



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?5.1.0.14.2.20020815093657.02e498b0>