From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 7 14:48:25 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov (mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov [147.155.137.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 02FE514F80 for ; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 14:48:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov) Received: from demios.ether.scl.ameslab.gov ([147.155.137.54]) by mailhub.scl.ameslab.gov with esmtp (Exim 1.90 #1) id 111zZ4-0000pp-00; Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:49:14 -0500 Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 16:48:15 -0500 From: Guy Helmer To: Zhihui Zhang Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: network configuration with NETGEAR In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 7 Jul 1999, Zhihui Zhang wrote: > My FreeBSD machine running 3.1 is connected to port 8 of a NETGEAR Fast > Ethernet Hub FE516, whose port 16 is connected to port 2 (10/100Mbps) of a > NETGEAR switch SW502. The UTP port (port 1) of SW502 is connected to the > outside world. > > When FreeBSD boots up, the light on port 8 of the Hub is on. Later, > FreeBSD says "de0: enabling 10BaseT port" and the light on port 8 goes > off. After bootup, I can not do telnet or ftp. It sounds as though you would need to issue ifconfig de0 media 100baseTX to make de0 use Fast Ethernet to the NetGear FE516. Guy Helmer Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message