Subject: Re: BigMac (be0) doesn't work at 100baseTX
To: port-sparc <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: beaker <beaker@freeshell.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/16/2003 17:12:06
> The BE and HME Sbus 100base-TX network interface cards each have an
> MII connector, and an RJ-45 socket. So far as I know, only one of
> those, per card, may be selected as the interface that packets flow
> over at any given moment.
>
> Neither of these cards has an AUI connector.
>
> The BE is half-duplex only.
>
> The HME can do full duplex.
>
Um - sorry: I was referring to the network interfaces on the SS-5's system
board: two (2) MII and one (1) TPE. I would assume that since there are
two built-in MII connectors, that two external transceivers could be used
simultaneously, right?

-Beaker