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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.mel.aone.net.au!usenet From: ca121069@aone.net.au Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Running a de0 card at 10Mbit/sec Date: 1 Jan 1997 07:16:33 GMT Organization: Customer of Access One Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 20 Distribution: world Message-ID: <5ad30h$jc1@news.mel.aone.net.au> Reply-To: hugh@s055.aone.net.au NNTP-Posting-Host: d51-2.cpe.sydney.aone.net.au X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.2.5 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:33414 I have one of the SMC cards based on the DEC chip. At the moment I am trying to get it to work on a 10Mbit/sec hub. On first starting up my machine, all is well. The hub (3 Com Super Stack 2) gives a green light and everything is fine. However, when the de0 driver is initialised it sets the card to 100Mbit/sec and the hub no longer recognises the port. (I'm running V2.1 stable I think) In reading various articles in the mailing list archive it appears to me that issueing the command ifconfig de0 -link2 changes it to 10Mbit/sec mode. When I did this, it seemed to work but the machine needed resetting so that the port would be initialised (I'm guessing here). What I'm basically asking is how do I save that change that I made with the ifconfig command. Also how do you know what the link 1 etc commands do? Is there any other way of setting up the driver? I looked in the kernel and there did not appear to be anything I could change. BTW I'm very new to unix :-) as I'm sure you have worked out. Thanks, Hugh.