From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 0: 8:59 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 050BB37B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:08:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA08336; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009210704.AAA08336@implode.root.com> To: Fred Condo Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet: full-duplex how? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 20 Sep 2000 19:31:59 PDT." <20000920193159.B25503@absinthe.condo.chico.ca.us> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 00:04:48 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >I have a system with an IntelPro Ethernet card, which purports to >support full-duplex (reformatted for legibility): > ># ifconfig fxp0 >fxp0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > inet XXX.YYY.236.105 netmask 0xfffffc00 broadcast > XXX.YYY.239.255 > inet6 fe80::2d0:b7ff:fe65:d038%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > atalk 12174.21 range 12174-12174 phase 2 broadcast 0.255 > ether 00:d0:b7:65:d0:38 > media: autoselect (100baseTX) status: active > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX > 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP > >But trying to set full-duplex results in an error: > ># ifconfig fxp0 mediaopt full-duplex >ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured > >My workaround is to have our network staff change my port on the >switch to half-duplex, but I'm hoping to learn how to do this for >future reference. Thanks. Try: ifconfig fxp0 media 100basetx mediaopt full-duplex -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message