Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 22:05:55 -0500 From: Eric Pogroski <pogrose@twcny.rr.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3Com 3CXFE574BT Support Message-ID: <20031224220555.1ba98b1a.pogrose@twcny.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <20031224.193850.30188078.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <20031224130803.78472eac.pogrose@twcny.rr.com> <20031224.193850.30188078.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:38:50 -0700 (MST) "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>, "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > In message: <20031224130803.78472eac.pogrose@twcny.rr.com> > Eric Pogroski <pogrose@twcny.rr.com> writes: > : I was wondering if the above mentioned card is ever going to be > : supported for full 10/100 speeds? Every flavor of FreeBSD I've > : tried with this card absolutely refuses to see it as anything but a 10 > : Mb/s card. > : > : If this is not the list I should be asking this on, could some kind soul > : point me in the proper direction? > > My 3CCFE574BT negotiated a 100Mbps link for me no problems last time I > checked (I'm on the road for the holidays, so I can't confirm). Maybe > you could be more specific as to the versions of FreeBSD that you've > tried? I recently went through and did a minor overhaul of the ep > driver and made sure that all the 3com ethernet cards I could find > worked for me, except for the 3c1, which is rare and no free OS > supports that I've been able to ascertain (it is close to a 3C589, but > has enough quirks to make it not quite work). > > Warner > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Hi Warner! and thanks for taking the time to reply to this during the holidays! The card in question is a '3Com Mehahertz 3CXFE574BT', it's a 10/100 X-Jack card (very handy, no dongles), and other anything that will recognize it as such, with the exception of FreeBSD (multiple flavors, see below): I've used the card successfully on my Thinkpad 390X with the following results: MS Windows (All Flavors): recognized correctly, with 10/100 settings available NetBSD (1.5x, 1.6x, NetBSD-current): recognized correctly, with 10/100 settings avail. OpenBSD (2.8 - 3.4): recognized correctly, with 10/100 settings avail FreeBSD 4.8: recognized as '3Com 574BT' , only 10 Mbs settings available FreeBSD 4.9: same FreeBSD 5.0: same FreeBSD 5.1: same FreeBSD 5.2: same I determined (in the 'BSD's) if 10/100 settings for the card were available by doing the following: 'ifconfig inet ep0 10.0.1.25 media 100basetx mediaopt full-duplex', if it exited correctly, I knew I was in good shape. However, the same command under the freebsd's would generate 'SIOGETOPT:error' or something to that effect. Also, the ep (4) man page makes no reference to the ep driver having anything but 10 mbs settings. Now I'm confused :( I really want to install freebsd next to winxp on this laptop (net's nice, but not enough software, and open has it's own quirks, that beyond setting up a bastion host, I'm unfamiliar with, and linux, is for me, not a real option). again, thanks! If you need any more info, please let me know, I'll get it to you as soon as possible. Eric
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