From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 13 11:25:19 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 187F937B40D for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:25:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from grillolja.cs.umu.se (grillolja.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.17]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6435243E6E for ; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 11:25:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tdv94ped@cs.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id D789DA014; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:25:15 +0100 (MET) Received: from cs.umu.se (h55n1c1o1023.bredband.skanova.com [213.64.164.55]) by grillolja.cs.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FDB0A00A; Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:25:11 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <3DD2A711.2040108@cs.umu.se> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:25:05 +0100 From: Paul Everlund User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: sv,en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Toomas Aas Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Net connection problem: sis, miibus References: <200211131504.gADF40k31335@lv.raad.tartu.ee> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new amavisd-new-20020630 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Toomas Aas wrote: > Hi! > > I have never used sis-based network adapter, so I skip the miibus stuff > (it seems very weird indeed) I guess miibus will be loaded if needed. >>Also, one last thing, ifconfig says the sis is using full-duplex. Is >>that ok, if maybe not the other side can handle full-duplex? > > If the other side cannot handle full-duplex, then this is definitely > *not* OK, and duplex mismatch can cause exactly the behaviour that you > described. > > What is in the other end of the connection? Not a clue, but it is set as autoselect when doing ifconfig (see man sis). > Anyway, try forcing the sis to the speed and duplex settings that match > the other side and see if the problems go away. Saw something about setting mediaopt's manually in rc.conf and will take a closer look at that. Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message