National SemiConductor NIC

[Amatus]

i had a similar problem with a friend's hp laptop. i installed 5.1 and
had a little trouble getting the mouse to work. i don't remember what
configuration made the mouse work, but i do remember exactly what
happened with sis0: when the machine was started sis0 was initally in
"media hw-loopback" mode, to get it working on the 10Mbit network i was
attached to i had to type "ifconfig sis0 media 10baset/utp". i don't
know about 100Mbit networks; maybe you have to specifically set the
media type for that too, or maybe the auto-select works on 100Mbit but
not 10Mbit. it's worth a shot if you haven't already tried it.

--- Sam Sen <techlists at kubicle.com> wrote:
> check this out and it does make sense.
> 
> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=15646
> 
> when i do "ifconfig -a" it doesnt even mention "full or half duplex"
> it says "auto-select" or i think it even mentioned "hw-loopback"
> 
> my other freebsd boxes state if the NIC is negotiating at half or
> full and
> the speed of the network.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ion-Mihai Tetcu" <itetcu at apropo.ro>
> To: <techlists at kubicle.com>
> Cc: <techlists at kubicle.com>; <ticso at cicely.de>;
> <freebsd-hardware at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 5:54 PM
> Subject: Re: National SemiConductor NIC
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 16:41:52 -0600 (CST)
> > <techlists at kubicle.com> wrote:
> >
> > > i doubt it ... it's an HP laptop, so I'm not sure what they use.
> > > why?
> >
> > Sorry, I didn't read with attention and thought it could be related
> > to:
> > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=55473
> >
> > The funny thing is that I've made the mistake twice; time to get a
> > goood sleep, after all it's 01 a.m. here ;)
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > IOnut
> > FreeBSD unregistered ;) user
> >


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