From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 3 4: 5:53 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F37F637B401 for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:05:51 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail6-sh.home.nl (mail6.home.nl [213.51.128.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7540D43E4A for ; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 04:05:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from s.miedema@home.nl) Received: from cc56918-a.home.nl ([213.51.240.174]) by mail6-sh.home.nl (InterMail vM.5.01.05.09 201-253-122-126-109-20020611) with ESMTP id <20021003110528.OBVG394.mail6-sh.home.nl@cc56918-a.home.nl>; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 13:05:28 +0200 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20021003130242.01fa6fb8@192.168.1.1> X-Sender: sicco@192.168.1.1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:05:09 +0200 To: Nelis Lamprecht , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Sicco Miedema Subject: Re: RealTek 8129/8139 nic problems In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021003112202.01325a18@192.96.48.11> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:43 3-10-2002 +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: >I have a Accton 100baseTX nic that uses the RealTek 8129/8139 chipset. The >nic works fine if I plug it into a 10mbit hub but as soon as I plug it >into a switch ( 3Com Baseline 10/100 ) which I use internally for ftp'ing >it starts transferring data ok and then slowly dies. After awhile it will >not permit me at all to connect and I have to manually bring down the >interface using ifconfig and then bring it back up before I can reconnect. >I have configured my kernel with the correct drivers ( device rl ). >I have 2 identical nic's in the same machine and they both give the same >problem and I have tried several ftp clients. I'm using 4.6 Stable. > >Has anyone experienced similar problems with these nic's ? Any help, >suggestions would be appreciated. I had the same problems with two RTL8139 nic's. The problem was easily solved by "locking" the nic's to one speed (100mbit or 10mbit) This is done with ifconfig I believe. Sicco Miedema To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message