Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 14:07:19 +0000 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: dg@root.com, Reinier.Bezuidenhout@KryptoKom.DE, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp 10/100 and device timeouts Message-ID: <36348217.12C37E19@tdx.co.uk> References: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EE018C1D70@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
sbabkin@dcn.att.com wrote: > > I suspect there is some bit of PHY programming that needs to be > > done that > > isn't happening, but that's just a guess. > > > I have used two Pro/100B cards connected without > a hub, back-to-back with a crossover cable, without > any problems. I'm using a number of these in cross-over situations, but it didn't happen first time... Some do, some don't (infact the ones I'm using at the moment do - but only if I leave them in the machines, if I swap the cards over within the same group of machines - they don't (and even then they only "don't" one-way... - If you get what I mean). Summary: Your mileage may vary... I had a lot of cards and cables to swap around with, and I was lucky to find some that work... ;-) (and a lot that didn't)... David Greenman at the time got involved a bit - but between us we couldn't come up with anything definitive... Cables? Cards? Timing? - Timing and Cables? Who knows... (The only interesting thing I did find is that a sequence of 'FFFF-FFFF's repeated would screw the card up one-way only for one of the configurations I cooked together... Regards, Karl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?36348217.12C37E19>