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Date:      Thu, 14 Sep 2000 20:10:54 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Rene de Vries <rene@canyon.demon.nl>
To:        kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (Christoph Kukulies)
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Subject:   Re: de0 strangenesses
Message-ID:  <200009141810.UAA00578@canyon.demon.nl>
In-Reply-To: <199909130856.KAA33966@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> from Christoph Kukulies at "Sep 13, 1999 10:56:09 am"

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I think i've got a similar problem. This involves a DE500 (de0 driver)
ethernet card and a 100 Mbit UTP. The problem was that somehow the driver
didn't detect the 100Mbit and always switched to 10Mbit. The workaround that
I use is a simple script "/etc/start_if.de0" with the following contents:

# workaround 10/100Mbit start problem
ifconfig de0 192.168.1.2 media 100baseTX
ifconfig de0 down
sleep 2
ifconfig de0 up

Since I started using this script the machine always started with the
100baseTX interface active.

Rene

> On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0.
> The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or
> some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot,
> often de0 is dead.
> 
> This happend today again. When I came into the office I could not
> ping said machine. I sat at the console, logged in. The machine was
> perfectly alive, only the de0 interface didn't work at the BNC network.
> 
> I did a ifconfig de0 down and exactly with doing that I got a kernel message
> from the driver: de0 BNC interface enabled (or something like that).
> Doing an ifconfig de0 up right after that the interface continued working
> at the BNC port.
> 
> Can the driver writer(s) comment whether there have been changes to the driver
> WRT that behaviour so I can expect that with either 3.2 or -current
> the problem would be gone?

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Rene de Vries                    http://www.tcja.nl/~rene; mailto:rene@tcja.nl


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