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Date:      Thu, 03 Oct 2002 13:05:09 +0200
From:      Sicco Miedema <s.miedema@home.nl>
To:        Nelis Lamprecht <nelis@brabys.co.za>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RealTek 8129/8139 nic problems
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.0.20021003130242.01fa6fb8@192.168.1.1>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20021003112202.01325a18@192.96.48.11>

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At 11:43 3-10-2002 +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote:
>I have a Accton 100baseTX nic that uses the RealTek 8129/8139 chipset. The 
>nic works fine if I plug it into a 10mbit hub but as soon as I plug it 
>into a switch ( 3Com Baseline 10/100 ) which I use internally for ftp'ing 
>it starts transferring data ok and then slowly dies. After awhile it will 
>not permit me at all to connect and I have to manually bring down the 
>interface using ifconfig and then bring it back up before I can reconnect. 
>I have configured my kernel with the correct drivers ( device rl ).
>I have 2 identical nic's in the same machine and they both give the same 
>problem and I have tried several ftp clients. I'm using 4.6 Stable.
>
>Has anyone experienced similar problems with these nic's ? Any help, 
>suggestions would be appreciated.

I had the same problems with two RTL8139 nic's. The problem was easily 
solved by "locking" the nic's to one speed (100mbit or 10mbit) This is done 
with ifconfig I believe.

Sicco Miedema



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