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Date:      Mon, 1 Apr 2002 09:03:02 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        Scott Sipe <cscotts@mindspring.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problem with AS600 and network card
Message-ID:  <15528.26774.310260.978924@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <200204011033.g31AXBV67235@rahl.dorm.duke.edu>
References:  <200204011033.g31AXBV67235@rahl.dorm.duke.edu>

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Scott Sipe writes:
 > I had de0 disabled down, and de1 plugging directly into my wall jack (100bt). 
 >  Then, I got an old Netgear 4 port hub (10mbps only) and plug de1 into it.  
 > Even if de1 is the only thing plugged into the hub the collision light comes 
 > on.  If I plug my other FreeBSD computer into the hub, (and the hub uplinked 
 > to walljack), I can't access anything from either computer, or either 
 > computer from the internet.  (also as a sidenote, whenever dhclient was 
 > running, it was giving Unaligned access errors).
 > 

These machines were originally configured with ancient synoptics 100Mb
switches built before there was a 100Mb autoneg standard.  Very few
things would autoneg with them, so I hardcoded everything to
100Mb/full duplex in the SRM console on all the old machines.  Since
FreeBSD obeys the SRM console's duplex settings for tulip nics, it may
have that setting hardcoded as well & be refusing to autosense 10Mb
with your 10Mb hub.

Try setting the ewa1_mode to "auto".  (its probably at FastFD now).
If that doesn't work, back it down to 10mb (I think its called
"twisted"). 

Drew

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