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From: Tony Griffiths <tonyg@OntheNet.com.au>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Forcing de0 to 10Mbs (SMC Etherpower PCI)
Date: Sun, 13 Apr 1997 11:13:32 +1000
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Dan Smith wrote:
> If
> I have to, I'll chop the driver to remove this aberation.  It just seems
> that if you tell the card its 10Base-T the driver shouldn't get weird
> ideas and reconfig it to something else.

This shouldn't be necessary...  There is an ifconfig switch (-link2 or
is it -link0 or ...) that forces the de driver into 10Bt mode!

> Any hints or comments would be appreciated.
> 
> --
> 
> Dan Smith -- dansmith@comm.net

Tony