Ganbold wrote this message on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 17:35 +0900: > John-Mark Gurney wrote: > >Ganbold wrote this message on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 17:23 +0900: > > > >>I'm having trouble to make my Netgear Gigabit PCI GA311 network card > >>work in 1000baseTX in FreeBSD-6.1RC. It runs fine on 100baseTX mode with > >>Cat5 cable, however it doesn't with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling in > > > >Does it work at 1000baseTX w/ Cat5 cabling? > > > I thought Cat5 only supports 100baseTX and I didn't test 1000baseTX w/ Cat5.
Nope, 1000Base-T (no X) is speced for Cat5 cabling.. As per the 802.3 spec 40.1: 1000BASE-T signaling requires four pairs of Category 5 balanced cabling, as specified in ISO/IEC 11801:1995 and ANSI/EIA/TIA-568-A (1995) and tested for the additional performance parameters specified in 40.7 using testing procedures defined in proposed ANSI/TIA/EIA TSB95. > It is not working at 1000baseTX with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling. It's wierd that it works at 100Base-TX w/ Cat5, but not w/ Cat5e... Is there differences in the cable length or something? Have you tried w/ just normal Cat5? -- John-Mark Gurney Voice: +1 415 225 5579 "All that I will do, has been done, All that I have, has not." _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"