Bug 26696
| Summary: | mediaopt doesn't work with xl drivers "ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured" | ||
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| Product: | Base System | Reporter: | luc <luc> |
| Component: | i386 | Assignee: | freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs> |
| Status: | Closed FIXED | ||
| Severity: | Affects Only Me | ||
| Priority: | Normal | ||
| Version: | Unspecified | ||
| Hardware: | Any | ||
| OS: | Any | ||
This is expected (though I'll admit that ifconfig has really lousy error handling.) If you look at the output from ifconfig closly, you'll notice that half-duplex is not in the supported media list. With Ethernet interfaces, the default is assumed to be convententional ethernet with full-duplex being the special case. You are already in half-duplex mode. If you were in full duplex mode you could disable it with "ifconfig xl0 -mediaopt full-duplex". -- Brooks -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 On Mon, May 28, 2001 at 07:15:19PM -0700, Brooks Davis wrote:
> This is expected (though I'll admit that ifconfig has really lousy error
> handling.) If you look at the output from ifconfig closly, you'll
> notice that half-duplex is not in the supported media list. With
> Ethernet interfaces, the default is assumed to be convententional
> ethernet with full-duplex being the special case. You are already in
> half-duplex mode. If you were in full duplex mode you could disable it
> with "ifconfig xl0 -mediaopt full-duplex".
A quick follow up on this. According to the ifmedia manpage from NetBSD
(the birthplace of ifmedia):
IFM_HDX Place the device into half-duplex mode. This option on
ly has meaning if the device is normally not half-du
plex. [half-duplex, hdx]
Since classical ethernet is half duplex, it is correct that this is not
a supported option.
This PR can be closed.
-- Brooks
--
Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE.
PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4
State Changed From-To: open->closed This is not a problem as explained in the two follow-ups. |
I cannot set mediaopt to my network card. dmesg | grep xl0 xl0: <3Com 3c905B-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xa400-0xa47f mem 0xdf800000-0xdf80007f irq 15 at device 10.0 on pci0 xl0: Ethernet address: 00:10:5a:e2:53:58 felix# ifconfig xl0 xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 10.0.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 ether 00:10:5a:e2:53:58 media: 10baseT/UTP status: active supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 100baseTX <hw-loopback> Here is my problem: felix# ifconfig xl0 mediaopt half-duplex ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured i cannot set mediaopt at all How-To-Repeat: get a xl netcard configured then: felix# ifconfig xl0 mediaopt half-duplex