Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 17:00:57 -0500 From: "DJ Martin MacT" <martinm@visualedge.com> To: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>, "David Daugherty" <doc@wcug.wwu.edu> Subject: Re: Setting up a box to use remotely by way of an X-server Message-ID: <024b01bf92b7$d89754d0$7400a8c0@visualedge.com> References: <Pine.LNX.3.96.1000320121653.24063A-100000@sloth>
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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" <doc@wcug.wwu.edu>
To: "DJ Martin MacT" <martinm@visualedge.com>
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
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