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Date:      Tue, 19 Nov 2002 14:57:32 +0100
From:      Thomas Moestl <tmoestl@gmx.net>
To:        Olafur Osvaldsson <oli@isnic.is>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: network errors
Message-ID:  <20021119135732.GA308@crow.dom2ip.de>
In-Reply-To: <20021119131950.GM19604@isnic.is>
References:  <20021119131950.GM19604@isnic.is>

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On Tue, 2002/11/19 at 13:19:50 +0000, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote:
> Hi,
> A short time ago I installed FreeBSD to sparc for the first time, everything
> has been excellent except when I tried to set the hme interface to 100MB-FD
> in the ifconfig setup at startup from rc.conf.
> When I try that the interface goes up and I can ping the localhost and the local
> IP address but am unable to get any traffic to or from the network, the switch
> also shows the interface as up but sees no traffic from it.
> 
> If I on the other hand start the machine without the media and mediaopt flags
> for ifconfig in rc.conf and run "ifconfig media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex"
> by hand after startup I have no problems and the interface is fixed to that
> speed and duplex.
> 
> System info:
> 
> FreeBSD fundinn.rhnet.is 5.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #0: Tue Nov 19 11:45:38 GMT 2002     root@fundinn.rhnet.is:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  sparc64
> 
> on Sun netra T1
> 
> If you need more info just ask...

Can you please provide the ifconfig output in both cases, the exact
rc.conf line you were using and the relevant dmesg excerpts for hme0?

Thanks,
	- Thomas

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