From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Aug 15 0:40:46 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FA9237B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 00:40:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hawk.thalamus.net (hawk.thalamus.net [212.31.160.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1F74943E70 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 00:40:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thnov@thalamus.se) Received: (qmail 71803 invoked from network); 15 Aug 2002 07:40:38 -0000 Received: from gw.ext.thalamus.se (HELO gazelle.thalamus.se) (212.31.160.253) by hawk.thalamus.net with SMTP; 15 Aug 2002 07:40:37 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020815093657.02e498b0@pop.thalamus.se> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 09:40:49 +0200 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org From: Thomas Novin Subject: Re: Problems with the xl driver or 3Com cards? Cc: Matt Johnson In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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