Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 09:39:07 -0500 From: Andrew Heybey <ath@bellcore.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Over-eager DE500-XA ethernet card Message-ID: <199603291439.JAA03195@grapenuts.bellcore.com>
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My 10/100 combo ethernet card insists on trying to do 100 MBit despite being plugged into a 10BaseT network. I just tried to boot 2.2-960323-SNAP on a Dell XPS-133 with a DEC DE500-XA PCI ethernet card. This is a 10BaseT/100BaseTX combo card, and I want to use it on a 10BaseT network. However, the driver insists on putting the card in 100BaseTX mode which doesn't work very well. If the card is not plugged into the network, it is put into 100Mbit mode at boot time (the "100" LED comes on and the driver prints "enabling 100baseTX UTP port"). If it is plugged into a 10BaseT hub at boot time, the "100" LED doesn't come on until the machine tries to transmit (or maybe when the iface is ifconfig'd--I'm not sure). I gather from reading the source that I can force 10Mb or 100Mb mode via "ifconfig de0 altphys" but that didn't help when running sysinstall... Has anyone seen this before? andrew
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