I have been working on this this morning, and I have a way of doing the same thing you do with ethtool on Linux, I should have something in HEAD shortly. This will let you "force" the advertisement of the link to 1G only.
Jack On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 3:16 AM, Alexander Sack <pisym...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Jack Vogel <jfvo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > You cannot force the link speed, but my validation engineer just checked > the > > current driver and it links down to 1G just fine, but you cannot do it > > manually, > > it is only negotiated. > > > > I am going to look at the code to add the manual control. > > Thanks Jack! The problem is that right now the card is connected to a > passive tap and there is no AN. When I do ifconfig ix0 down && > ifconfig ix0 up, the multispeed fiber logic goes into action but a > link never happens (it does for 10G but there is no AN on 10G so this > is expected). (I tried various settings for LMS bits in AUTOC but I > could not get a link - the datasheet is very vague - actually come to > think of it, I dont think I tried setting it to 0 which is 1G which > maybe the trick) > > -aps > _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
