Chris,

Beacuse I was also have another issue not reported initially:
from the console screen
>> dc1: failed to force tx and rx to idle state
(this was posted in another thread)

I decided to change out the NIC's to DLink DFE-530TX+

I am no longer seeing this error message at the console, as well as
the performance of the connection has improved to what it was when I
was running v 1.11

It appears that V 1.2b7 doesn't like Netgear FA310Tx cards. I beleive
this is also a issue with FreeBSD 5.3 as well.

Thanks,

- Don

On 4/7/05, Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com> wrote:
> On Apr 7, 2005 2:29 PM, Don Munyak <don dot munyak at gmail dot com> wrote:
> > > > -->>[1.] I am assuming FreeBSD is unable to assign a resource for a
> > > > particular piece of hardware...like the on-board audio.
> > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-March/080615.html
> > >
> >
> > I guess I can live with this. I did notice one of the <PNP> message
> > went away after I removed the KVM cable and ran headless. Off hand I
> > will have to bring up the status.php to see what the remaining msg's
> > are.
> >
> 
> It's nothing more than log clutter, from what I could tell.  Nothing
> to be concerned about.
> 
> 
> > >
> > > This is normal for CF cards.
> > >
> >
> > By normal meaning "it is known" and can be ignored ???
> >
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
> >
> > >
> > > What I'm finding on this suggests possibly an autonegotiation problem.
> > >  Is it causing problems?
> > >
> >
> > Yes, I am seeing a reduction download performance. Not quite dialup,
> > but rather a fraction of the speed  as compared to using v 1.11. Other
> > than performance, I can still connect to the world.
> >
> 
> Sounds very typical of a speed/duplex mismatch.  Change the <media>
> and <mediaopt> to match what you want them to be set at, described
> here.  http://m0n0.ch/wall/docbook/faq-hiddenopts.html
> 
> I think changing the NIC's at this point is premature.
> 
> -Chris
>