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Date:      Thu, 24 Feb 2005 07:19:56 -0300
From:      Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
Cc:        Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira <lioux@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD 5-STABLE, MSI KT880 , fxp and SCB timeouts
Message-ID:  <20050224102018.79979.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here>
In-Reply-To: <421D4B2B.9020702@alumni.rice.edu>
References:  <20050224020702.51073.qmail@exxodus.fedaykin.here> <421D46E0.6090001@alumni.rice.edu> <20050224033053.GN253@dan.emsphone.com> <421D4B2B.9020702@alumni.rice.edu>

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On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 09:33:41PM -0600, Jon Noack wrote:
> On 02/23/05 21:30, Dan Nelson wrote:
> >In the last episode (Feb 23), Jon Noack said:
> >>On 02/23/05 20:06, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
> >>>My last motherboard burned down to ashes so I got myself a brand
> >>>(after 2 weeks) new MSI KT880. I am getting some weird results.
> >>>
> >>>1) fxp intel etherxpress 10/100 network cards report SCB timeout
> >>>as well as achieving ridiculously low transfer rates of 600
> >>>Bytes/second. Well, I got 10 KBytes/sec once but that does not count
> >>>since a side box gets more than 50KB/s ;-) on the same hub. Oh, I've
> >>>already switched hub ports, rj45 cables and fxp cards.
> >>
> >>Duplex mismatch?  You say "hub" and not "switch", so you might need
> >>to force the card to half-duplex.  Oddly enough, the fxp(4) man page
> >>doesn't include half-duplex as a media option.  Surely it supports
> >>it...

  Actually, it is a 5 port switch (10/100 TX). Any thoughts? I can
provide as much information as necessary. By the way, another
computer using exactly a fxp connected to the same switch works
nicely.

  Regards,

-- 
Mario S F Ferreira - DF - Brazil - "I guess this is a signature."
feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature



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