Let's see. My FreeBSD box tells me:
xl0 : 3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL
rl0 : RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX
I guess I'm in need of a 10/100 card. I think I recall that the
RealTek mentioned above was real cheap. The actual card part of it is
a little bigger than a stick of gum. I was surprised when I saw it
the first time.
But Linux doesn't report any connection type or speed that I can see.
-Rob
> On 20010724.0731, Bob Crandell said ...
>
> Coax is 10 megabits maximum.
> What is the card in your FreeBSD box?
> Linux's ifconfig might not, I'm not sure, but dmesg will show the connection type
>and speed.
>
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7/23/2001 5:17:36 PM >>>
> > On 20010723.1656, Bob Crandell said ...
> >
> > Is your card a combo card? Does it have a RJ45 port and a coax port? If so, it
>is only 10-base-T.
>
> Yup. Are all combo cards only 10-base-T?
>
> I wasn't sure if Linux's ifconfig showed 100-base-T selected or not.
>
> On my firewall which has FreeBSD, it shows this. Note the line that
> says 'media'. I'm not sure if Linux has this or not:
>
> xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet6 fe80::260:8ff:fe1c:607e%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> inet 65.4.49.159 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 65.4.49.255
> ether 00:60:08:1c:60:7e
> media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
> supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP
><full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>
> rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 192.168.1.254 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> inet6 fe80::248:54ff:fe66:5cb8%rl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2
> ether 00:48:54:66:5c:b8
> media: autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>) status: active
> supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP
><full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback>
>
> -Rob
>
>
