Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 19:34:50 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@cs.technion.ac.il> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: questions@freensd.org Subject: Re: "Jordan K. Hubbard": [Fwd: Genuine DEC 21140 card doesn't work] Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91-heb-2.04.960731193133.27768D@cs.technion.ac.il> Resent-Message-ID: <Pine.SV4.3.91-heb-2.04.960731205526.3085B@cs.technion.ac.il> In-Reply-To: <24591.838824434@time.cdrom.com>
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Hi! The credit for the answer goes to Gary Palmer. I once read his answer to a similar question about (I think) an SMC card with 2.1.5R, and have just tried it on my DE500 running 2.1.0R, and it works. The solution is to add "-link2" to the ifconfig line. This forces the card into 10BaseT mode. To go into 100BaseTX mode, you can add "link2" to the command line (or just leave it blank, by what I've seen it will always go into 100BaseTX mode unless told explicitly not to). On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > Fwd.. > ------- Forwarded Message > > From: darren@n1.wdc.net (Darren Bordelon) > Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc > Subject: Genuine DEC 21140 card doesn't work > Date: 31 Jul 1996 03:14:02 GMT > Organization: Western Datacom > Message-ID: <4tmj1r$23m@n1.wdc.net> > NNTP-Posting-Host: n1.wdc.net > X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] > > > Hi, > > I am stumped by this one. We have several BSD machines, and all > have 10/100 or 10 mbs Digital PCI cards of one brand or another. > We have also used various brands on machines built for clients, > and all have worked great. Recently, Ingram was giving $100 back > on 5 packs of genuine Digital 21140 PCI cards (the DE500), and since > we had 5 machines to build, we ordered a box. > > Unfortunately, this card is always seen by BSD as a 100TX card, even > though the card is plugged to a 10mbs hub. What's more, at power on, the > card indicates that it is in 10mbs modes, yet BSD still wants to put it > into 100mbs mode. I have seen this happen on several mother boards, and > on several hubs, so it looks like BSD is just confused by the way > this card is giving speed sense information. Is there anyway around this? > Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. > > Darren > darren@wdc.net > > > ------- End of Forwarded Message > > Nadav
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