Date: Thu, 4 Feb 1999 22:14:50 +0100 (CET) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl (Wilko Bulte) Cc: wes@softweyr.com, rene@canyon.demon.nl, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 100baseTX problems with the DE500 ethernet cardn Message-ID: <199902042114.WAA04177@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199902041908.UAA02483@yedi.iaf.nl> from Wilko Bulte at "Feb 4, 99 08:08:47 pm"
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As Wilko Bulte wrote... > As Wes Peters wrote... > > Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > > > As Rene de Vries wrote... > > > > > > > The DE500 driver seems to have problems switching from 10baseT/UTP to > > > > 100baseTX. During boot the card (somehow) switches to 10baseT/UTP (shown on > > > > console as "de0: enabling 10baseT port" and verified by watching the HUP > > > > > > If it makes you any happier: same thing here on one of my Alpha machines. > > > My K6/266 seems to connect at 100Mbit all the time. My other Alpha > > > (the axppci33) has a SRM console that recognises the DE500 and FreeBSD > > > goes 100mbit without troubles on that one. > > > > > > > (switching one of its LEDs off)). When ifconfig 192.168.x.x media 100baseTX is > > > > run the console log shows "de0: enabling 100baseTX port", but the HUP does not > > > > seem to switch back to 100MBits. The same hardware and Win95 seem to work > > > > though. When I disconnect/reconnect the machine and the HUP it works neatly on > > > > 100Mbit. (The hup is a cheap Lanpro 10/100, the cabling is Cat5.) > > > > > > Hub not hup. > > > > > > Instead of disconnect/reconnect of the cable for me the following works > > > in /etc/rc.local on the obnoxious Axp: > > > > It sounds like Rene's hub won't switch once it's set the port type. > > Adding "media 100BaseTX" to the original ifconfig parameters may (or > > may not) take care of this problem. > > Hmm. My impression is that the media 10/100 detection is broken in some > respect. I *guess* one of my Alpha's SRM console sets the card up correctly. > The other one is of pre-DE500 times and does not even show it in SHOW CONF. On that one D-Unix says: tu0: DECchip 21143: Revision: 3.0 tu0: auto negotiation capable device tu0 at pci0 slot 6 tu0: DEC TULIP (10/100) Ethernet Interface, hardware address: 00-00-F8-06-AB-1F tu0: no console mode: defaulting to 10BaseT (UTP) port: half duplex So, for the Alpha boxes the console comes into play. Wilko _ ______________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands WWW : http://www.tcja.nl ______________________________________________ Powered by FreeBSD __________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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