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

[Jon Noack]

On 02/23/05 21:30, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Feb 23), Jon Noack said:
>>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...
> 
> 
> Autodetection on ethernet detects both speed and duplex, and
> full-duplex and half-duplex are either/or, so if you force a speed and
> don't force full-duplex, you get half-duplex by default.

OK -- makes sense.  I run em and fxp cards and noted that em(4) listed 
both while fxp(4) listed only full-duplex.  Confusing...

Jon