From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 20 19:32: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from absinthe.yi.org (adsl-63-192-100-78.dsl.chic01.pacbell.net [63.192.100.78]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B5C337B424 for ; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:32:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from fred@localhost) by absinthe.yi.org (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8L2W4A25676 for freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:32:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from fred) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:31:59 -0700 From: Fred Condo To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Ethernet: full-duplex how? Message-ID: <20000920193159.B25503@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have a system with an IntelPro Ethernet card, which purports to support full-duplex (reformatted for legibility): # ifconfig fxp0 fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet XXX.YYY.236.105 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast XXX.YYY.239.255 inet6 fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe65:d038%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 atalk 12174.21 range 12174-12174 phase 2 broadcast 0.255 ether 00:d0:b7:65:d0:38 media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP But trying to set full-duplex results in an error: # ifconfig fxp0 mediaopt full-duplex ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured My workaround is to have our network staff change my port on the switch to half-duplex, but I'm hoping to learn how to do this for future reference. Thanks. System is: FreeBSD foo.example.com 4.1-STABLE FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE #1: Thu Jul 27 19:07:54 PDT 2000 fred@foo.example.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/FOO i386 -- Fred Condo + fred@condo.chico.ca.us To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message