As Doug Rabson wrote ... > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Khaled Daham wrote: > > > Hello folks > > > > I cvsupped,made world, built a kernel today and from now on the de > > interfaces only comes up in 100BaseTX, what causes it not to negotiate ? > > My Apr_29 kernel doesnt behave like this. > > > > The link lamp flickered like hell so it was quite a nice atmosphere for > > awhile , but i got tired of it :) > > > > /Khaled, Telia Network Services > > > > Mail: kha...@telia.net > > Cell: 070-6785492 > > Work: 08-4567281 > > > > :hacker: /n./ [originally, someone who makes furniture with an axe] > > Some tulip boards in alpha systems don't autonegociate properly so the SRM > has a way of forcing them to a particular mode. A change was made recently
Recently... I think it's been there for a couple of years. > to respect the SRM setting instead of using autoneg. The variable is > typically called ewa0_mode. To find the right setting, type > > >>>set ewa0_mode > > from the SRM prompt and it will give you a list of settings. Choose one, > then type e.g.: > > >>>set ewa0_mode Twisted-Pair Keep in mind that older SRMs that understand the older Tulip 10/100Mbit chips (21140 IRRC) might not recognise the new ones (is that the 21143?) Bit me once.. Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
