In message <200302090340.h193eWT11823@toad.rmkhome.com>, you write: 

-> Christopher SEKIYA said:
-> 
-> >On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 10:16:59PM -0500, Rafal Boni wrote:
-> 
-> >> I'll second this -- my Ultra 5's hme *will not* establish link with a 
-> >> DLink 10/100 unmanaged switch no matter how I stood on my head
-> 
-> >The attached one-liner, originally floated on port-sparc64 by thorpej many 
-> >many moons ago, fixes autonegotiation with hme.  I've been using it for 
-> >over a year with a multitude of switches, autonegotiation works fine on
-> >all of them.
-> 
-> The funny thing about this is my Ultra 5:
-> 
-> NetBSD sidewinder 1.6_STABLE NetBSD 1.6_STABLE (SIDEWINDER) #2: Thu Dec 12 1
-> 6:16:44 MST 2002     rmk@sidewinder:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/SIDEWI
-> NDER sparc64
-> 
-> hme0: flags=8a63<UP,BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST>
->  mtu 1500
->         address: 08:00:20:b3:5f:0b
->         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX full-duplex)
->         status: active
->         inet 216.17.154.241 netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast 216.17.154.255
->         inet6 fe80::a00:20ff:feb3:5f0b%hme0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
-> 
-> The switch is:
-> 
-> D-Link DSS-8+ 10/100 switch.

Curse, mumble, curse!  That's the same one the on-board hme in my U5 
*doesn't* work with!  I think I also had a similar issue with another
unmanaged DLink 16 or 24 port switch at work.. What phy does your hme
use?

Mine is:
    nsphy0 at hme0 phy 1: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
    nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@attbi.com
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