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#! rnews 2303 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!howland.erols.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: Fri, 27 Sep 1996 07:49:26 -0700 Organization: Erol's Internet Services Lines: 43 Message-ID: <324BE976.745D@www.play-hookey.com> References: <3248f857.0@news.aussie.net> <52b2bo$2dd@verdi.nethelp.no> <324B158A.167EB0E7@qut.edu.au> <324AFD64.7074@www.play-hookey.com> <324B699E.1CF0@mine.net> Reply-To: kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.96.82.6 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; U) Samantha Teh wrote: > > 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? One more possibility occurs to me, in view of the added evidence: By any chance is this a Plug'n'Pray device? If so, can PnP be disabled? -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |