Manuel Ravasio wrote:
A friend of mine gave me a pcmcia card with no recognizable brand/model on
it.
I plugged it in and OpenBSD told me it's a Realtek 8139 card, and called it
"rl0".
I can use the card, but apparently it works at 10Mbps instead of 100.
I tried to force the card's speed and duplex adding suitable entries in
/etc/hostname.rl0:
inet 10.42.42.1 255.255.255.0 10.42.42.255 media 100baseTX mediaopt
full-duplex
ifconfig -a shows a 100Mbps link speed, but the card's and the switch's led
show 10Mbps.
If you hard set one side of an Ethernet link it disables the auto
negotiation pulse so the other side defaults to 10baseT half duplex. I
would suggest using media autoselect or media 10baseT unless you can
configure the port on the switch. If you have another switch available,
test the card on it and see what it negotiates to, also check that the
dongle (if there is one) is fully connected.
Dustin Lundquist
