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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:46:28 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
Cc:        Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: de driver broken with SMC 8434BT 
Message-ID:  <199710131846.LAA17483@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:06:38 PDT." <199710131706.KAA04981@austin.polstra.com> 

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>In article <199710130616.IAA00826@curry.mchp.siemens.de>,
>Andre Albsmeier  <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> wrote:
>> 
>> since the de0 in 2.2-STABLE now is the one from -current
>> (don't know why), the SMC 8434BT doesn't work anymore, when
>> using the BNC ports.
>> 
>> I tried "ifconfig de0 media BNC" and "ifconfig de0 media AUI/BNC"
>> but to no avail. Since de(4) days nothing about media types, I am
>> helpless and went back to a one week older 2.2-STABLE version.
>
>You can get a list of the supported media types with "ifconfig -m
>de0".

   BTW, I've been thinking about yanking the "-m" option and simply always
outputting this information instead. I found myself spending way too much
time trying to find "-m" (when I didn't know it existed and thus didn't know
that I should be looking for it). Opinions?

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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