From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 27 16:54:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA26224 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:54:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (ppp1785.on.sympatico.ca [206.172.228.57]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA26215 for ; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 16:54:44 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gardner@localhost) by localhost (8.6.12/8.6.12) id TAA00244 for hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:54:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 27 Nov 1996 19:54:11 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 0.3-beta [p0] on FreeBSD Reply-To: gbuchanan@sympatico.ca From: Gardner To: Subject: Problems with DEC FDDI on ASUS P/I-55TP4XE Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hello: I have a Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI Controller which I'm trying to use with FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE. When I attach the card to (an appropriately patched for PCI) Compaq Prolinea, it works OK, but when I attach it to my ASUS P/I-55TP4XE motherboard, I can't get it to work. The probe sequence looks like this: /kernel: Probing for devices on the PCI bus: /kernel: chip0 rev 2 on pci0:0 /kernel: chip1 rev 2 on pci0:7 /kernel: fpa0 rev 0 int a irq 10 on pci0:10 /kernel: fpa0: DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI DAS Controller /kernel: fpa0: FDDI address 08:00:2b:b7:75:14, FW=2.46, HW=0, SMT V7.2 /kernel: fpa0: FDDI Port[A] = A (PMD = ANSI Multi-Mode), FDDI Port[B] = B (PMD = ANSI Multi-Mode) /kernel: de0 rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:12 /kernel: de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:0c:73:c8 /kernel: de0: enabling AUI port Then, later when it is ifconfig'ed up, I get this: /kernel: fpa0: Link Unavailable /kernel: fpa0: Halted: halt code = 3 (Software Fault) last message repeated 4 times At this stage the driver sucks up about 90% of my 75Mhz pentium until I ifconfig it down again. My guess is that there is some incompatibility between the ASUS MoBo and the FDDI card, but I don't know the MoBo, the driver or the FDDI adapter well enough to guess what exactly needs to be fixed. My line of attack will be to get the latest BIOS from ASUS, and see if it either helps, or provides more avenues for tinkering with the PCI settings, but I'm not confident about where that will lead. If anyone out there has real experience with these adapters and the FreeBSD driver, and recognises my symptoms, please let me know. Thanks. ============================================ Gardner Buchanan Ottawa, ON