Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 10:30:21 +0100 (CET) From: Andre Albsmeier <andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> To: prashant+@cs.cmu.edu (Prashant R. Chandra) Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: problems with de driver for quad card Message-ID: <199803050930.KAA10912@intern> In-Reply-To: <34FE565B.D889970B@cs.cmu.edu> from "Prashant R. Chandra" at "Mar 5, 98 02:38:03 am"
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> Hi! All, > Please forgive me if this question has been asked before on the > mailing > list. I want to report a problem we are facing with the driver for the > Zynx ZX346 Quad PCI ethernet card. When two of these cards are > connected > back-to-back (in two Pentium II PCs) the configuration seems to go > haywire. > The cards come up complaining that autosense failed and if I use > ifconfig > to set the media type to 100baseTX on both ends, I get connectivity but > I have problem with bidirectional traffic. Ping seems to work fine, but > doing a TCP bandwidth test using ttcp fails because packets are being > dropped on the point-to-point link between the two cards. (Fails means > the TCP bandwidth is only about 0.8 Mbps or so). Another problem is > that > I cannot get the link to operate at 10 Mbps. If I set the media to > 10baseT/UTP, > the interface reports that it has 'no carrier'. The de driver is broken regarding the media selection. (PR 4841). I had some email exchange with Matt Thomas concerning this but haven't heard from him for approx. 2 month. I gave it up now and will keep on using the old version 1.54.2.6 which works for my SMC 8434BT. -Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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