From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 15:38:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA17503 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:38:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA17454 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:38:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA10626; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:37:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:37:37 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: dpetrou@cs.cmu.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Q: "disable 'auto select'" message In-Reply-To: <199808182139.OAA00507@resnet.uoregon.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, David Petrou wrote: > > > Hi. In my dmesg I see: > > > > > > utp/tx[*tx*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address [...] > > > > > > I'd like to know why auto select is bad and why I should disable it. > > > This message isn't very informative and a glance through the kernel > > > code doesn't reveal anything more to me. > > > > I think it confuses the driver. What device is this, anyway? I think > > it's a 3com but I'm not sure. > > Yeah, it's a: > vx0 <3COM 3C595 Fast Etherlink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:10:0 > > My net works, so by "confusing the driver," do you mean poorer > performance? I don't want to disable auto select because then I'll > have trouble (I think) when I move my machine between 10 and 100 Mbs > hubs. I imagine I'll have to reconfigure my card every time I switch. Possibly. The 595 may not correctly support autoselection (which shouldn't be confused with autonegotiation). Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message