At 11:43 3-10-2002 +0200, Nelis Lamprecht wrote: >I have a Accton 100baseTX nic that uses the RealTek 8129/8139 chipset. The >nic works fine if I plug it into a 10mbit hub but as soon as I plug it >into a switch ( 3Com Baseline 10/100 ) which I use internally for ftp'ing >it starts transferring data ok and then slowly dies. After awhile it will >not permit me at all to connect and I have to manually bring down the >interface using ifconfig and then bring it back up before I can reconnect. >I have configured my kernel with the correct drivers ( device rl ). >I have 2 identical nic's in the same machine and they both give the same >problem and I have tried several ftp clients. I'm using 4.6 Stable. > >Has anyone experienced similar problems with these nic's ? Any help, >suggestions would be appreciated.
I had the same problems with two RTL8139 nic's. The problem was easily solved by "locking" the nic's to one speed (100mbit or 10mbit) This is done with ifconfig I believe. Sicco Miedema To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
