Subject: Re: BigMac (be0) doesn't work at 100baseTX
To: port-sparc <port-sparc@netbsd.org>
From: beaker <beaker@freeshell.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 02/16/2003 17:40:26
> On Sun, Feb 16, 2003 at 05:12:06PM -0800, beaker wrote:
> > > The BE and HME Sbus 100base-TX network interface cards each have an
> > > MII connector, and an RJ-45 socket. So far as I know, only one of
> > > those, per card, may be selected as the interface that packets flow
> > > over at any given moment.
> > >
> > > Neither of these cards has an AUI connector.
> > >
> > > The BE is half-duplex only.
> > >
> > > The HME can do full duplex.
> > >
> > Um - sorry: I was referring to the network interfaces on the SS-5's system
> > board: two (2) MII and one (1) TPE. I would assume that since there are
> > two built-in MII connectors, that two external transceivers could be used
> > simultaneously, right?
>
> I think if you look closely, you will see that one of those is the
> printer port and the other is an MII.
>
Ah - so that's what the "// | <***>" graphics implies! They are the same
type of connector and stacked over each other so I just assumed...

Thanks for the clarification!

-Beaker