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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:27:24 +1000
From:      Rob B <rbyrnes@ozemail.com.au>
To:        Jameel Akari <jakari@bithose.com>
Cc:        Daniel Jung <noreponse@hotmail.com>, <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: dc0, only 10baseT/UTP? 
Message-ID:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020430112512.01c6a3a0@pop.ozemail.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.33.0204290949120.67207-100000@poptart.bithose.c om>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20020429164125.01c565b0@pop.ozemail.com.au>

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At 23:52 29/04/2002, Jameel Akari sent this up the stick:

>On Mon, 29 Apr 2002, Rob B wrote:
>
> > At 15:56 29/04/2002, Daniel Jung sent this up the stick:
> > >After moving to stable from 4.4 release as of yesterday, my pws 500au's
> > >NIC (dc0)
> > >became only 10baseT/UTP. I have tried setting the media to 100base but 
> then
> > >carrier becomes non-active.  If I change it back to 10baseT/UTP, it 
> becomes
> >
> > I run a PWS 500au on stable, and the NIC stays at 100MBit/Full
>
>         The onboard 21143 on my 500au doesn't autonegotiate either.. I had
>it briefly in Linux and now in Tru64 5.1, and neither handles it any
>better.  I managed to fix it using the set_ewa0_mode commands in SRM.
>This at least got me to a stable 100Mb,half duplex connection.  I don't
>recall offhand if it would stay at 100/full.

I agree that the auto-negotiation is flaky - to say the least.  That's why 
I forced 100/full in (from memory) rc.network with the line:

   ifconfig_dc0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex

cheers,
Rob


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