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Date:      Mon, 25 Feb 2002 21:20:13 -0500
From:      "Jeff Lawton" <jeff@idealso.com>
To:        "Brooks Davis" <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>, <freebsd-net@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: 3com gigabit 3c996b-t
Message-ID:  <NFBBJDLNADNIPCNOAPMHOEIPCDAA.jeff@idealso.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020225113832.A29087@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>

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Thank you, if you get a functioning driver please let me know.  Does any one
know if I would be better off returning this card and getting a more
supported one like the intel pro1000 or dge-500tx. does any one have a
recommendation. My company wants to use this as a btrieve (I know yuk) file
server. We have a database that we have been using for years. This is an
temporary performance increase while we work on a client server system.

Jeff Lawton
Ideal Solution, LLC

-----Original Message-----
From: Brooks Davis [mailto:brooks@one-eyed-alien.net]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 2:39 PM
To: Jeff Lawton
Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: 3com gigabit 3c996b-t

On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 06:58:20PM -0500, Jeff Lawton wrote:
> Bge detects the card and it shows up on ifconfig it does not detect
> 1000basetx on autoselect even though the card and the switch both register
> 1000baset. I connected it to a 100base t port and it seems to work fine.
How
> do I get it to switch to 1000baset
>
> This is the bge section of ifconfig
>
> bge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=3<rxcsum,txcsum>
>         inet 192.168.0.166 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         inet6 fe80::204:76ff:fee0:12a9%bge0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>         ether 00:04:76:e0:12:a9
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>         status: active

At least on the systems I'm trying to use 3C996B-T's on, the MII support
is clearly hosed.  I'm seeing it probe 32 instances on ukphys which is
bogus.  I'm going to try and look at it some time this week, but someone
with more driver experience would probalby have more luck.

-- Brooksk

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