Date: Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:52:15 -0400 From: Christopher Michaels <ChrisMic@clientlogic.com> To: 'Mike Squires' <mikes@sir-alan.chem.indiana.edu>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Setting Intel Pro100B to half duplex Message-ID: <6C37EE640B78D2118D2F00A0C90FCB4401105CE0@site2s1>
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Specify the 100BaseTX media w/o the "full-duplex" media option and it will use half-duplex. Auto is notorious for not properly detecting things. -Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Squires [SMTP:mikes@sir-alan.chem.indiana.edu] > Sent: Monday, October 11, 1999 2:23 PM > To: questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Setting Intel Pro100B to half duplex > > I have an Intel Pro100B which appears to be choosing the wrong automatic > setting - 100Mbit full duplex, instead of half duplex. > > I can't find documentation on the options, if any, for flags for the > the fxp0 driver. I did a search on www.freebsd.org and on the local > docs, plus looked in the FBSD Handbook. There appear to be flags > defined in the kernel code for this card but my C is pretty primitive > and I haven't been able to figure out what the correct flags are. > > The hardware is an Everex PO-6200, dual PPro, 64MB, Adaptec 2744 with > 4 narrow diff SCSI-II drives, Adpatec 2740 with NEC CD-ROM, S3 Virge > video, Pro100B Enet. I'm runniong 3.3-RELEASE with a kernel compiled > for SMP (works fine), NETATALK, IPX, ccd, bpf. > > The same hardware ran 2.2.7 for quite a while, although not SMP. > > Symptoms are high error rates, especially inbound, on both 10 and 100Mbit > connections. samba 2.0.2 and 2.0.5a both lock up under heavy loads > (2.0.5a > has been patched as listed in the bugfixes for the ports version of samba. > > Mike Squires > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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