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Date:      Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:52:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        dhh@pce.net
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: your mail
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990426104939.2095p-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904261113290.62155-100000@dnh.pce.net>

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On Mon, 26 Apr 1999, Dave Hummel wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I saw references to this in the mailing list:   
> 
> Apr 24 13:30:44 ns3 /kernel: de0: receive: 00:c0:4f:58:65:62: bad crc  
> Apr 24 13:30:46 ns3 /kernel: de0: receive: 00:c0:4f:58:c5:9f: alignment
> error
> 
> This started to occur when somebody switched out a cable on my box. A
> cable know to work was put in, but my machine still did not respond until
> I rebooted. Is it normal for this to happen? It would seem that it should
> be able to recover from switching out a cable...

check your /var/log/messages, more than likely the driver decided
to switch over to 10bT or AUI mode when the cable sense failed.

this will even happen on cards that ONLY have the 10bT!!!

you can force it to always be in 10bT mode like this:

ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP

-Alfred



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