Date: Sat, 30 Mar 1996 19:38:30 -0800 (PST) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@tahoma.cwu.edu> To: Andrew Heybey <ath@bellcore.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Over-eager DE500-XA ethernet card Message-ID: <Pine.VUL.3.91.960330193720.24027A-100000@tahoma.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199603291439.JAA03195@grapenuts.bellcore.com>
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for 10mb, give -link2 to ifconfig, also in 'extra ifconfig options' when using sysinstall. -c On Fri, 29 Mar 1996, Andrew Heybey wrote: > 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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