From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 31 8:28:23 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us (dv229s48.lawrence.ks.us [24.124.48.229]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C61D637B6B2 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 08:28:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bsd-stable@boneyard.lawrence.ks.us) Received: from boneyard (boneyard [24.124.26.25]) by madeline.boneyard.lawrence.ks.us (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA05310 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:28:18 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bsd-stable@boneyard.lawrence.ks.us) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:28:18 -0600 (CST) From: To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: having problems with realtek under 4.0? Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG after upgrading my test machine from 3.4 to 4.0 a few days ago, i noticed that my Ovus NIC (realtek 8139) was having some serious problems passing data. the difference wasn't between 1.5 and 1.2M/sec... more along the lines of 1-2K a second with stalls, etc... remarkably enough, there were no kernel or driver messages during these tests. it appears that the rl driver under 4.0 is having problems with auto- negotiatiion. i decided to try hard setting the media type before running out to get another intel card. lo-and-behold... it works again. please note, this problem appeared on a 10Base network. I haven't test- ed whether or not the same problem occurs autodetecting in an 100Base environment yet. Regards, Stephen "We have enough youth. How about a fountain of SMART?" [message seen on a button] Stephen D. Spencer - Lawrence, KS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message