Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 01:54:42 -0700 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Ganbold <ganbold@micom.mng.net> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re driver problem (RTL8169 chipset) Message-ID: <20060508085442.GH59504@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <445F02E5.6010304@micom.mng.net> References: <445F000C.1080906@micom.mng.net> <20060508083001.GG59504@funkthat.com> <445F02E5.6010304@micom.mng.net>
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Ganbold wrote this message on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 17:35 +0900:
> John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> >Ganbold wrote this message on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 17:23 +0900:
> >
> >>I'm having trouble to make my Netgear Gigabit PCI GA311 network card
> >>work in 1000baseTX in FreeBSD-6.1RC. It runs fine on 100baseTX mode with
> >>Cat5 cable, however it doesn't with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling in
> >
> >Does it work at 1000baseTX w/ Cat5 cabling?
> >
> I thought Cat5 only supports 100baseTX and I didn't test 1000baseTX w/ Cat5.
Nope, 1000Base-T (no X) is speced for Cat5 cabling.. As per the 802.3
spec 40.1:
1000BASE-T signaling requires four pairs of Category 5 balanced cabling,
as specified in ISO/IEC 11801:1995 and ANSI/EIA/TIA-568-A (1995) and
tested for the additional performance parameters specified in 40.7 using
testing procedures defined in proposed ANSI/TIA/EIA TSB95.
> It is not working at 1000baseTX with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling.
It's wierd that it works at 100Base-TX w/ Cat5, but not w/ Cat5e...
Is there differences in the cable length or something? Have you tried
w/ just normal Cat5?
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