FreeBSD 5-STABLE, MSI KT880 , fxp and SCB timeouts

[Jon Noack]

On 02/23/05 20:06, Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote:
>   My last motherboard burned down to ashes so I got myself a brand
> (after 2 weeks) new MSI KT880. I am getting some weird results.
> 
>   1) fxp intel etherxpress 10/100 network cards report SCB timeout
> as well as achieving ridiculously low transfer rates of 600
> Bytes/second. Well, I got 10 KBytes/sec once but that does not count
> since a side box gets more than 50KB/s ;-) on the same hub. Oh,
> I've already switched hub ports, rj45 cables and fxp cards.

Duplex mismatch?  You say "hub" and not "switch", so you might need to 
force the card to half-duplex.  Oddly enough, the fxp(4) man page 
doesn't include half-duplex as a media option.  Surely it supports it...

Jon