Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 18:17:20 +1100 From: "Geraghty, Dewayne" <Dewayne.Geraghty@compaq.com> To: "Dimitry Andric" <dim@xs4all.nl> Cc: <freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Realtek 8139 Message-ID: <AA62447DB04E5A4DB580858FD05C26E30462E2@SNOEXC01.asiapacific.cpqcorp.net>
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I'm currently using RL8139B's under 4.3-RELEASE on networks using only=20 10Mb/s or only 100Mb/s. Simply dropped in the various boxes and ran=20 without any configuration tricks. From the discussion so far, I would=20 suggest: a) the card you have isn't working correctly (a hardware fault) (likely) b) there is a conflict with another device (for example is there a=20 statically defined ISA card using irq 11 - check your bios) c) or there has been a change with the rl driver in 4.4 Stable (unlikely) This is my experience with 7 RL8139 NICs (Cheap or not, they're better=20 than DE203's :) Regards, Dewayne. -----Original Message----- From: Dimitry Andric [mailto:dim@xs4all.nl] Sent: Friday, 30 November 2001 4:05 AM To: John Hoover Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2001-11-29 at 17:49:44 John Hoover wrote: JH> I had some trouble, also with the cards not being able to figure JH> out the network speed. Yep, that's what you deserve if you buy cheap cards. :) I've seen this _many_ times. Most cards don't even pretend to have auto-negotiate, but those that do mostly fail anyway. JH> ifconfig_rl0=3D"inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP" JH> ifconfig_rl1=3D"inet 192.168.10.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 10baseT/UTP" Following up on this: does anybody know why the "mediaopt" option of ifconfig doesn't seem to work as described in the manpage for rl(4)? If I use (needed for crappy Alcatel DSL modems): ifconfig rl0 media 10baseT/UTP mediaopt half-duplex it says: ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured Only "full-duplex" media option is accepted. How can I be sure the card is in half-duplex mode? Cheers, - -- Dimitry Andric <dim@xs4all.nl> PGP Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~dim/dim.asc Fingerprint: 7AB462D2CE35FC6D42394FCDB05EA30A2E2096A3 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i Comment: http://www.gn.apc.org/duncan/stoa_cover.htm iQA/AwUBPAZcvLBeowouIJajEQItPwCgtEG9Ta75/YnC4iULW5cbG4NRBfgAn1Cp f6bkaCq/NOS9iRvn5GhjGvYs =3Dq4Vu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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