From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 20 14: 1:30 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailhost.visualedge.com (visualedge.com [207.139.24.70]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E642437B9F1 for ; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 14:01:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from martinm@visualedge.com) Received: from martinm (martinm [192.168.0.116]) by mailhost.visualedge.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id RAA14459; Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:02:25 -0500 Message-ID: <024b01bf92b7$d89754d0$7400a8c0@visualedge.com> From: "DJ Martin MacT" To: "FreeBSD Questions" , "David Daugherty" References: Subject: Re: Setting up a box to use remotely by way of an X-server Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:00:57 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hmmm.... I'm chasing down a hub to borrow even as we 'speak'... But I find myself wondering: The lights seem pretty stable (even when FreeBSD is not responding, it's light is still on.... If I ping from FreeBSD to windows while FreeBSD is being non responsive, the lights on the hub seem to be appropriate (they blink in unison)). Anyways, thanks for the help and I'll let you know how the new hub works out (when I score it...). ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Daugherty" To: "DJ Martin MacT" Sent: Monday, March 20, 2000 3:22 PM Subject: Re: Setting up a box to use remotely by way of an X-server > On Mon, 20 Mar 2000, DJ Martin MacT wrote: > > > Thanks, I'll give that a go! (ouch, my wallet is starting to hurt...), I > > guess I kind of wanted to eventually replace the hub anyway, though, since > > the cards are dual mode 10/100 BaseT and the hub I am using is a 10baseT... > > but the hub itself does seem (to my grotesquely ignorant eyes) to be > > functioning through all of this... The lights blink when I ping from FreeBSD > > to windows, and windows does get the packet, FreeBSD just doesn't get the > > one being sent back... > > > > I'm wondering if anyone else has had experience with NC-100 (I can > > verify the exact name when I get home today, 6pm EST) cards from Linksys... > > They seem very cranky; under linux, the moment the driver (tulip) got > > loaded, the hub light would turn off (so I've actually gotten a lot > > 'further' than b4 (stop laughing at me, I'm just a programmer.))? > I was also using Linksys NICs and it sounds like you're going through the > same experiences I had with this a year ago. > > I definitely think your hub is bad. That's exactly what mine was doing. > Under Windoze sometimes the light would go off for 10 seconds and then > comeback on for a little while. With fbsd it would blink just like it was > receiving packets. > > I started buying the Netgear stuff which is also cheap and I've had little > to no problems under fbsd. I found an 8-port 10/100 Netgear hub for $102 > on pricewatch. It's worked swimmingly :) for a year now. > > Good luck. > > David > doc@wcug.wwu.edu > Washington State Resident > ICQ 21106703 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message