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. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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