On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfour...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello list,
>
> I have a Asus Sabertooth 990FXv2 motherboard,  and a run of the mill
> NetGear DGS2205 desktop gig switch
>
> with linux my Ethernet can negotiate at 1GB but with FreeBSD it can not
> if I force the device to 1000baseT  with ifconfig it does not work.
>
>
> uname -a
> FreeBSD NewBSD 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r260188M: Thu Jan  2
> 04:27:49 CST 2014     sfourman@NewBSD:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>
>
>
> re0@pci0:10:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x85051043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x09
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
>     device     = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>
>
>
> root@NewBSD:/usr/home/sfourman/Desktop # ifconfig
> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>
> options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
> ether 60:a4:4c:60:d5:a7
> inet 192.168.1.31 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> inet6 fe80::62a4:4cff:fe60:d5a7%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active


/etc/rc.conf is important here as well as the complete steps and output
which provoked this response:

"but with FreeBSD it can not
if I force the device to 1000baseT  with ifconfig it does not work."

In the given output, autoselect clearly selects 100Mb connection, the
question is why.



-- 
Adam
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