Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2004 17:15:15 +0100 From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> To: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: BETA3 showstoppers (read: critical bugs) Message-ID: <1094573715.93406.62.camel@buffy.york.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <1094571416.67273.8.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com> References: <m3brgjqqhj.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> <20040907112121.GA94401@cell.sick.ru> <20040907151957.GE95626@cell.sick.ru> <1094571416.67273.8.camel@rushlight.kf8nh.com>
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On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 16:36, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote: > On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 11:19, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 05:14:47PM +0200, Matthias Andree wrote: > > M> Hum, is the duplex setting manual? I've only used the 3C900 Combo for > > M> 10base2/BNC (Coax) so far. My DSL modem is hooked up to a "classic" > > M> (=old) 3C905 via crossover CAT5. > > > > The card I've acquired 15 minutes ago :) is 3C905-TX. It is connected > > with help of crossover CAT5 to my notebook. I run PPPoE server on > > notebook and can connect from desktop to this using ng_pppoe on > > CURRENT. > > We have occasionally seen what I am told by our network folks are odd > autonegotiation issues with 3C905-TX cards connected to Cisco switches, > for what it's worth. I'm not convinced it's solely a hardware issue, > though, as it seems to be a lot more common with "recent" 2.4-series > SuSE Linux kernels than with older ones. So far I've not had a chance > to try it with FreeBSD (and I'm unlikely to do so any time soon; around > here a stable AFS client is an absolute necessity...). There are known problems with the later 3com 3C905C cards which often fail to autonegotiate correctly. As far as I know, the earlier cards don't suffer from this, but I guess it's possible. It may be worth comparing manufacture location of the cards - apparently there are a few differences between cards originating from Ireland and those originating from Singapore. See for example (although it refers to Linux) http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/vortex/2002-July/001880.html Gavin
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