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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.mel.connect.com.au!news.syd.connect.com.au!news.aussie.net!news From: Samantha Teh <iam@mine.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: forcing de0 to 10Mbps Date: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 16:43:58 +1100 Organization: aussie.net Pty Limited Lines: 31 Message-ID: <324B699E.1CF0@mine.net> References: <3248f857.0@news.aussie.net> <52b2bo$2dd@verdi.nethelp.no> <324B158A.167EB0E7@qut.edu.au> <324AFD64.7074@www.play-hookey.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: mine.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01Gold (Win95; I) Ken Bigelow wrote: > > Darryl Rees wrote: > > > > > > 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??? same phenomena here. without plugging it into any hub, the SMC card tends to default to 100Mbps. but when you plug into a 100Mbps hub, it thinks it is 10Mbps and vice versa. the only way i have managed to force it so far is to actually start off a DOS flopsy, run EZSTART.EXE to "test" at 10Mbps, then soft-boot the box. seems to work like a charm after i do that. any ideas anyone?