Subject: Re: tulip driver documentation
To: Greg Wohletz <greg@duke.CS.UNLV.EDU>
From: Chris G. Demetriou <cgd@pa.dec.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/10/1998 21:15:06
> Yea, I've looked at the ifconfig man page.
>
> ifconfig -m de0 reports the following:
> de0: flags=8863<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> media: 100baseTX status: no carrier
> supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP
> inet 131.216.18.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 131.216.18.255
the ifconfig manual page isn't too clear about this.
> However no combination of options that I can think of will select
> 100BaseTX <full-duplex>
>
> I've tried ``ifconfig de0 media '100baseTX <full-duplex>' I've tried using
> mediaopts, etc. can't seem to come up with the correct incantation.
full-duplex is a media option.
something like:
ifconfig de0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
will probably do the trick.
chris