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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!arclight.uoregon.edu!nntp.primenet.com!hunter.premier.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: forcing de0 to 10Mbps Date: Thu, 26 Sep 1996 22:02:12 +0000 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 42 Message-ID: <324AFD64.7074@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3248f857.0@news.aussie.net> <52b2bo$2dd@verdi.nethelp.no> <324B158A.167EB0E7@qut.edu.au> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: kenjb05.play-hookey.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Darryl Rees wrote: > > Steinar Haug wrote: > > > > [Caretaker] > > > > | i am just installing a few SMC EtherPower PCI cards into boxes running > > | 2.1.5-RELEASE. this cards are 10/100Mbps auto-switching and are based > > | on the 21140 chip set. > > | > > | the OS probes the cards currently and installs the de0 driver. unfortunately > > | i have not found a way to force the cards to work at 10Mbps. > > | > > | is there anything i must change or set in the kernel config file to force > > | de0 to run at 10Mbps? > > > > ifconfig de0 -link2 > > > > Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no > > Now here's a funny thing - > > I'm running 2.1.5-RELEASE, with a digital de500, and when I plugged > it into a 10M port to test it, it came up at 100M. OK, I thought, it > doesn't autodetect to good - so I plugged it into a 100baseT port. > Works like a bought one. Next reboot, it comes up at 10M. Curious. > Plug it back into the 10M port and reboot - comes up as 100M. > ie. Seems to detect 10baseT on 100baseT port and 100baseT on 10baseT > port. > > Never gotten round to look at the driver code; I'm surprised that > noone else would have picked this up if it is a general problem. Hmmm. > Hmmm, indeed. Maybe a bad cable or plug, so the system accepts as possible the port *without* the plug??? -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |