From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 12 04:42:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA19537 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 04:42:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from iworks.interworks.org (deischen@iworks.interworks.org [128.255.18.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA19531 for ; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 04:42:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from deischen@iworks.interworks.org) Received: (from deischen@localhost) by iworks.interworks.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id GAA08631; Sun, 12 Jul 1998 06:44:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 06:44:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" Message-Id: <199807121144.GAA08631@iworks.interworks.org> To: msmith@revolution.3-cities.com Subject: Re: D-Link enet card question Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > Well, I got the Adaptec/Cogent Ana 6911A based on the > > > DEC 21143-PA chip and it DOESN'T like it! It loads the > > > driver fine but tells me that the link is down/ cable problem. > > > Try forcing the media type with > > > ifconfig de0 media 10BaseT/UTP > > > > I have a lab of these cards (the 4-port versions) and the work fine, other > > than they get REAL annoyed if you pull the ethernet cable out. > > Nope, it doesn't work. I purchased a couple 6911A cards from www.onsale.com and I couldn't get them to work either. Same problems. I wrote it off to their being bad. This was under -current before the latest de driver was imported (just last week I believe). I sent them back and replaced them with D-LINK 500TX which are based on the 21140-AF chip. These worked fine. I couldn't see what chip were on the 6911 cards because Adaptec had placed a label over the chip. But if they were 21143-PAs, perhaps the de driver didn't know whow to deal with these properly. I wish I had kept one of those cards so I could try it out with the update de driver in -current. Hmm, perhaps you could download a boot/fixit disk from the daily snapshot server (ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/) and use the fixit disk to try manually ifconfig'ing your interface to see if the new de driver will work with those cards. Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message