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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!solace!nntp.uio.no!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-xfer.netaxs.com!newsin.iconnet.net!news.rochester.ican.net!macwhiz From: macwhiz@phoebe.accinet.net (Rob Levandowski) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Forcing de0 to 10Mbs (SMC Etherpower PCI) Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 23:05:57 -0400 Organization: ACC iNet (from ACC Long Distance) Lines: 22 Message-ID: <macwhiz-ya023680001104972305570001@news.accinet.net> References: <5ikuje$m7d@fox.comm.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: powerbook.robl.accinet.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: Yet Another NewsWatcher 2.3.6 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38940 In article <5ikuje$m7d@fox.comm.net>, dansmith@comm.net (Dan Smith) wrote: > I'm getting ready to upgrade to 2.2.1 (from a vintage 2.1.0 system) > and I seem to be having a problem with the de0 driver not paying > attention to the board setting on my new SMC EtherPower card. I've had FreeBSD 2.2.x do this to me as well; some of my SMC EtherPower cards work OK, some default to 100base-TX despite being set for 10base-T and being plugged into a 10base-T LAN. The cheesy workaround is to put "ifconfig de0 -link2" in your rc.local. Better yet, put it in an earlier rc file so that it executes before the OS tries to start up any network daemons. Swapping with a different SMC card might help, too. Replacing one of my SMCs with an identical spare solved the problem on a few occasions. -- Robert Levandowski Internet Systems Analyst ACC iNet / ACC Long Distance Corp. robl@phoebe.accinet.net