fxp autoselect problem

[Joshua Lokken]

* David.Bauer at SCHERING.DE <David.Bauer at SCHERING.DE> [2004-03-06 03:00]:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a problem with the fxp driver in FreeBSD4.9 RELEASE.
> The switch is 100Mbit full duplex but it seems the handshake with my
> network card does not work correctly.
> 
> fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX)
>         status: active
> 
> The network throughput is very slow ( 8kbit/sec).
> 
> Is there a way to force the driver to 100 Mbit full duplex and disable the
> autoselect ?


See the fxp(4) man page for additional ifconfig options
you can pass to the driver... eg.

(in /etc/rc.conf)

ifconfig_fxp0="inet 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 \
                media 100BaseTX mediaopts full-duplex"

-- 
Joshua

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