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Date:      Fri, 22 Oct 1999 15:32:20 +0100 (BST)
From:      Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>
To:        "John E. Hein" <jhein@timing.com>
Subject:   Re: How to make Ethernet come up as Full-Duplex... 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9910220937080.22969-100000@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <14351.44896.980183.480934@taz.timing.com>

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On Thu, 21 Oct 1999, John E. Hein wrote:

>  > >Doesn't work using 100baseTX, either. Same error.
>  > 
>  > Well I'm stumped.  It works fine for me on 3 systems, and for everyone
>  > else who has posted about it the past few months.  There must be
>  > something different about your system.  Are you sure you have an
>  > Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B ?
> 
> Mark,
>  Did you really type "media-opt" (with hyphen)?  If so, perhaps that's
> your trouble.

Yep. I cut and pasted the command-line supplied:

# ifconfig fxp0 inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffff80 media 100BaseTX media-opt
full-duplex
ifconfig: media-opt: bad value
# l `which ifconfig`
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  169024 Sep 29 10:23 /sbin/ifconfig
# uname -a
FreeBSD x.x.x.x 3.3-STABLE FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE #0: Wed Oct 13
15:01:17 BST 1999     x.x.x.x:/usr/src/sys/compile/PLATO i386


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