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Date:      Thu, 28 May 1998 12:17:57 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        AnnMarie Scott <annmarie@afct.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Enabling AUI port on lance ethernet card 
Message-ID:  <199805281917.MAA01093@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 28 May 1998 16:40:13 %2B0930." <356D0DD5.D9942996@afct.org.au> 

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G'day!

> I have here an SVEC PCI combo ethernet card that I want to use the AUI
> port on, rather than the 10baseT/2 (long story :-).  10baseT and 2 works
> fine under the lnc driver on 2.2.6-release, but the lnc doesn't seem to
> support the ifconfig media options, nor the link[1-2].
> 
> I've tried setting the card manually to the AUI port using the supplied
> software, and the setting seems to have stayed in the EEPROM - but it
> just doesn't look like it's being used.  Card reports itself as a NE2100
> (C-LANCE) and the error being reported is "Device timeout -- Resetting".

I had my head inside the lance driver a couple of weeks back; there 
doesn't appear to be support for the media selection on the PCNET 
parts. 8(

You could try contacting Paul Richards (the driver author), as he was 
tinkering with it a little a couple of days back.

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