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Date:      Tue, 17 Mar 1998 12:22:51 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen <erakupa@kk.etx.ericsson.se>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: "ifconfig de0 media 10baseT/UTP" not working
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980317122127.994W-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199803171029.LAA14238@kk662.kk.etx.ericsson.se>

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On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, ETX-B-SL Martti Kuparinen wrote:

> > > I want to set my Digital Fast Ethernet card to 10 Mbit/s and
> > > [...] 
> > > The driver reports (see the output below) that it is now in 10 Mbit/s
> > > mode and "ifconfig de0" says the same.
> > > 
> > > But the LED on the ethernet card (and Sun which is the gateway, i.e.
> > > 192.168.15.129) says the card is in 100 Mbit/s mode.
>  
> > Try forcing the server down to 10mbit.  
> 
> This is not a solution for me, because I have the following configuration

It could be that your Ethernet card refuses to acknowledge the speed
change. Can you talk with the Sun box? It may not change the speed until
you actually *do* something... 

I don't run 100mbit here so I don't have any personal knowledge to go by.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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