On Fri, 13 Dec 2002, George Jeliazkov wrote: > Subject: LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card questions > > Hi all, > > I've got a brand new LinkSys-EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V3) > for my laptop.I'm running FreeBSD-4.7 RELEASE.The card is recognized > correctly and configured with no trouble. > The problem is that the card works only at 10Mbit/s. > I've read the man page for ed(4), but didn't find a solution. > > Here's the output from ifconfig: > > # ifconfig ed1 > ed1: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > ether 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 > > # ifconfig ed1 192.168.1.3 media 100baseTX ...(or media autoselect) > ifconfig: SIOCGIFMEDIA: Invalid argument > > does this mean that the ed driver doesn't support 100baseTX on this card? > > So I've tried another thing: > Booted MicroBSD from CD for a test: > > here's what shows at boot: > > ne3 at pcmcia1 function 0 "Linksys, EtherFast 10/100 PC Card (PCMPC100 V3), V2.0" >port 0xa000/32: LAN iobase 0x240 (0xa000) -> 0x0 > ne3: address 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 > bmtphy0 at ne3 phy 1: BCM5221 100baseTX PHY, rev. 4 > > # ifconfig ne3 > ne3: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > address: 00:04:5a:99:be:d7 > media: Ethernet 100baseTX full-duplex > status: active > inet 192.168.1.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe99:bed7%ne3 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x14 > > here it shows as 100baseTX full-duplex...but it works at 10Mbit/s again. > > maybe this card works only at 10Mbit/s ? > > thanx > > george >
Search the archives of this list (and any of the Linux tech lists) for PCMPC100 and you'll see it's just not a very good card in the free *nix space. The only reason mine didn't end up in the trash is because a Windows-using friend wanted it. It's a bad performer for him too (just barely above 10 Mb) but he doesn't care... # John Bleichert # http://vonbek.dhs.org/latest.jpg To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
