re driver problem (RTL8169 chipset)

Ganbold ganbold at micom.mng.net
Mon May 8 08:58:12 UTC 2006


John-Mark Gurney wrote:
> Ganbold wrote this message on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 17:35 +0900:
>   
>> John-Mark Gurney wrote:
>>     
>>> Ganbold wrote this message on Mon, May 08, 2006 at 17:23 +0900:
>>>  
>>>       
>>>> I'm having trouble to make my Netgear Gigabit PCI GA311 network card 
>>>> work in 1000baseTX in FreeBSD-6.1RC. It runs fine on 100baseTX mode with 
>>>> Cat5 cable, however it doesn't with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling in 
>>>>         
>>> Does it work at 1000baseTX w/ Cat5 cabling?
>>>  
>>>       
>> I thought Cat5 only supports 100baseTX and I didn't test 1000baseTX w/ Cat5.
>>     
>
> Nope, 1000Base-T (no X) is speced for Cat5 cabling..  As per the 802.3
> spec 40.1:
> 1000BASE-T signaling requires four pairs of Category 5 balanced cabling,
> as specified in ISO/IEC 11801:1995 and ANSI/EIA/TIA-568-A (1995) and
> tested for the additional performance parameters specified in 40.7 using
> testing procedures defined in proposed ANSI/TIA/EIA TSB95.
>   
Ok.
>   
>> It is not working at 1000baseTX with Cat5e/Cat6 cabling.
>>     
>
> It's wierd that it works at 100Base-TX w/ Cat5, but not w/ Cat5e...
> Is there differences in the cable length or something?
Not much difference.
>   Have you tried
> w/ just normal Cat5?
>   
Ok, I will test it again in couple of days and let you know.

Ganbold




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