Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:03:04 -0500 From: Bill Harris <harrisb@rcisd.org> To: ticso@cicely.de Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DC driver real slow on 5.4/alpha 4100 Message-ID: <90aa6ed534ef3e8b255885975c1072c8@rcisd.org> In-Reply-To: <20050721150431.GO67987@cicely12.cicely.de> References: <OF342EB215.0D01F1C6-ON86257043.0061F5B5-86257043.0062CB5C@rcisd.org> <20050719205911.GJ60433@cicely12.cicely.de> <1a6f6c72c4a19a18ffc5c4bd1c1d09c6@rcisd.org> <20050721141858.GN67987@cicely12.cicely.de> <84ad48bef9de0621a6efe8ceba1ee2ce@rcisd.org> <20050721150431.GO67987@cicely12.cicely.de>
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Thanks much Bernd, I was hoping the full driver stack was available in /alpha as in /i386. I'll first see if I can clear it thru srm, if that doesn't work, then worst case another card. Thanks much for your help. Bill On Jul 21, 2005, at 10:04 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:32:36AM -0500, Bill Harris wrote: >> That was the first thing I tried. I'm afraid somehow I've > > Ups - I've overread that you even powered down. > However since this is a DEC card you can also do a lot from SRM. > >> caused the card to get into a non-functional state. Tried switching >> ports on my switch, unplugging, ifconfig down/up changed from 10/100 >> and back. I'm hoping that powering it down and leaving it all day >> without network cable will let it reset. Dunno. >> >> What I'm worried about is those cards are hard to find, and what >> other cards does FBSD support in the Alpha 4100, if this card is >> toast? > > Theoretically every card should work. > I've using a fxp(4) based card in AS4100 plus PC164 and xl(4) based > in PC164. > I'm also running a tx(4) based in NoName, but these have broken support > for autoselect. > Card selection for alpha is only a problem if you want to netboot, > otherwise the same criteria exists as for other platforms. > >> On Jul 21, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: >> >>> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:14:45AM -0500, Bill Harris wrote: >>>> Bernd, >>>> >>>> I have an identical AS4100 at home (my office heater) and had >>>> put 5.4 on it last week. It also shows to be using a dc driver, >>>> the >>>> same DE500 card. >>>> >>>> Well, I think I've screwed my home server up this morning. It's >>>> connected to a Linksys 10/100 switch, and it had been running >>>> fine under 10baseT/half. >>>> >>>> I decided to try and switch it to 100, through a telnet session >>>> (should >>>> have not been a problem) and the card has locked up. I tried to >>>> set >>>> the card (now from the console) to auto-negiotiate, but nothing. No >>>> lights at all on the card. >>>> >>>> I've unplugged switch, card, power down, rebooted, but my network >>>> card is dead. It still shows succesfully probed in the dmesg, >>>> showing >>>> the mac address and all, but it's interface is DOWN and won't come >>>> back >>>> online or show any LED's. >>>> >>>> Having to leave for work after this fine piece of experimentation, I >>>> unplugged >>>> everything, turned power off on the server and left. >>>> >>>> Any ideas how I might rescue/reset my card? What are some options? >>> >>> You might have success with ifconfig down/up. > > -- > B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de > bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de >
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