From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 17 12:24:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA26611 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:24:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25994 for ; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:22:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA01135; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:22:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:22:51 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP" not working In-Reply-To: <199803171029.LAA14238@kk662.kk.etx.ericsson.se> 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 Tue, 17 Mar 1998, ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen wrote: > > > I want to set my Digital Fast Ethernet card to 10 Mbit/s and > > > [...] > > > The driver reports (see the output below) that it is now in 10 Mbit/s > > > mode and "ifconfig de0" says the same. > > > > > > But the LED on the ethernet card (and Sun which is the gateway, i.e. > > > 192.168.15.129) says the card is in 100 Mbit/s mode. > > > Try forcing the server down to 10mbit. > > This is not a solution for me, because I have the following configuration It could be that your Ethernet card refuses to acknowledge the speed change. Can you talk with the Sun box? It may not change the speed until you actually *do* something... I don't run 100mbit here so I don't have any personal knowledge to go by. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message