From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 22 7:37:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from europa.salford.ac.uk (europa.salford.ac.uk [146.87.3.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EC09B14C1D for ; Fri, 22 Oct 1999 07:37:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk) Received: (qmail 11525 invoked by alias); 22 Oct 1999 14:37:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 11519 invoked from network); 22 Oct 1999 14:37:40 -0000 Received: from plato.salford.ac.uk (146.87.255.76) by europa.salford.ac.uk with SMTP; 22 Oct 1999 14:37:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 25429 invoked by uid 141); 22 Oct 1999 14:37:40 -0000 Date: Fri, 22 Oct 1999 15:32:20 +0100 (BST) From: Mark Powell X-Sender: mark@localhost To: "John E. Hein" Subject: Re: How to make Ethernet come up as Full-Duplex... In-Reply-To: <14351.44896.980183.480934@taz.timing.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, John E. Hein wrote: > > >Doesn't work using 100baseTX, either. Same error. > > > > Well I'm stumped. It works fine for me on 3 systems, and for everyone > > else who has posted about it the past few months. There must be > > something different about your system. Are you sure you have an > > Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B ? > > Mark, > Did you really type "media-opt" (with hyphen)? If so, perhaps that's > your trouble. Yep. I cut and pasted the command-line supplied: # ifconfig fxp0 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff80 media 100BaseTX media-opt full-duplex ifconfig: media-opt: bad value # l `which ifconfig` -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 169024 Sep 29 10:23 /sbin/ifconfig # uname -a FreeBSD x.x.x.x 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 13 15:01:17 BST 1999 x.x.x.x:/usr/src/sys/compile/PLATO i386 Mark Powell - UNIX System Administrator - Clifford Whitworth Building A.I.S., University of Salford, Salford, Manchester, UK. Tel: +44 161 295 5936 Fax: +44 161 295 5888 www.pgp.com for PGP key M.S.Powell@ais.salfrd.ac.uk (spell salford correctly to reply to me) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message