xe problems [was: Re: what is /var/empty]

Gavin Kenny gavinkenny at yahoo.co.uk
Thu May 15 02:34:43 PDT 2003


Yes it will go into 10Mbps no problem, just not
100Mbps ;-(

 --- Scott Mitchell <scott+freebsd at fishballoon.org>
wrote: > On Mon, May 12, 2003 at 02:21:59PM +0100,
Gavin
> Kenny wrote:
> > if I type (as root)
> > ifconfig xe0 media 100baseTX/UTP
> > 
> > I get:
> > ifconfig: unknown media subtype: 100baseTX/UTP
> > 
> > I've had a look at the xe source and I think the
> > command should be just 100baseTX but I am
> definatly no
> > expert. Does anyone know how to force your xircom
> CE3
> > cards up to 100Mbps?
> 
> Hmm... 'ifconfig xe0 media 100baseTX' works for me. 
> Admittedly on
> -CURRENT, but it will be the same media keyword on
> 4.x.  I'm pretty sure
> this worked the last time I used the driver on 4.x. 
> Can you force it into
> 10Mbps mode (media 10baseT/UTP)?
> 
> 	Scott
> 
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