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From: watca <watca@xs4all.nl>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: 100Mb Cards
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 18:00:19 -0800
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> > resets and loses link status.  The machine sees the card and allows you to
> > bind/ifconfig to it but nothing goes in or out.
>   That's strange - I've used the DEC DE500-XA cards under BSD/OS 2.1 (with
> and without the driver update patch) at both 10 and 100Mbit/sec and haven't
> had any problems other than that once you ifconfig the card, you can't change
> the link speed without rebooting.

I have the same problem, I can't use the SMC EtherPower 10/100, I get
de0 transmission timeout errors. I tried booting connection to a 10
network and to a 100 network, none of them work, do you need to setup
the link speed on bsdi aswell, or should it auto-detect this during
bootup?

Marcel