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From: tinguely@plains.nodak.edu (Mark Tinguely)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Etherpower 10/100
Date: 24 Feb 1997 13:50:55 -0600
Organization: Computer Science Department, North Dakota State University, Fargo
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In article <macwhiz-ya023680002002972121210001@news.rochester.ican.net>,
> <deleted> If your
>card gets insistent about booting in 100base-TX mode, you can always put
>the ifconfig command early in your rc startup file, before the network
>daemons load -- changing the setting if the card is already in 10base-T
>mode won't hurt anything.

or just add it to your ifconfig_de0 line in /etc/sysconfig:

ifconfig_de0="inet III.III.III.III netmask 255.NNN.NNN.NNN -link2"

--mark.