I think i've got a similar problem. This involves a DE500 (de0 driver) ethernet card and a 100 Mbit UTP. The problem was that somehow the driver didn't detect the 100Mbit and always switched to 10Mbit. The workaround that I use is a simple script "/etc/start_if.de0" with the following contents:
# workaround 10/100Mbit start problem ifconfig de0 192.168.1.2 media 100baseTX ifconfig de0 down sleep 2 ifconfig de0 up Since I started using this script the machine always started with the 100baseTX interface active. Rene > On a 3.0-current of October 1998 I'm having often trouble with de0. > The machine often reboots over night (when either the locate db is built or > some other big job - like mirror - is running). Anyway, after the reboot, > often de0 is dead. > > This happend today again. When I came into the office I could not > ping said machine. I sat at the console, logged in. The machine was > perfectly alive, only the de0 interface didn't work at the BNC network. > > I did a ifconfig de0 down and exactly with doing that I got a kernel message > from the driver: de0 BNC interface enabled (or something like that). > Doing an ifconfig de0 up right after that the interface continued working > at the BNC port. > > Can the driver writer(s) comment whether there have been changes to the driver > WRT that behaviour so I can expect that with either 3.2 or -current > the problem would be gone? -- Rene de Vries http://www.tcja.nl/~rene; mailto:r...@tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
