From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 2 20:58:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B60E516A403 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:58:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DC4C43D45 for ; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 20:58:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from speedtoys.racing@gmail.com) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id p77so1124586nfc for ; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:58:16 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=CfgLQDKS65/JvIRGJwDeLnQZZGWICH99ARlM3IhDgGZ5YmpH+9//n3exsbf1cOSj3BKM8lvW9mOB5hVnvlS7s5g/3SllnPT0bwXMl0BJblGxk0ph5LNsEpHw+yFLwoiHLeN9CrU74cVbbrB7scoB1atjALd2uvXlRsRpsSqVY7A= Received: by 10.49.8.15 with SMTP id l15mr6351848nfi.1162501096411; Thu, 02 Nov 2006 12:58:16 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.48.203.16 with HTTP; Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:58:16 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:58:16 -0800 From: "Jeff Mohler" To: freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org In-Reply-To: <454A5AD8.1090600@orchid.homeunix.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <454A5AD8.1090600@orchid.homeunix.org> Cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 20:58:18 -0000 What museum is this in, can we visit it? On 11/2/06, Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: > Hi all, > > anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) > working with 10base2/BNC? > > I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and > should be supported according to man xl page. > > With ifconfig_xl0="DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf and BNC cable connected (with > terminator) ifconfig reports: > > xl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > options=9 > inet6 fe80::204:76ff:feed:6697%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 > ether 00:04:76:ed:66:97 > media: Ethernet autoselect (none) > status: no carrier > > dhclient reports "xl0: no link..... giving up" > > > Now, if I manually try to switch to BNC media with: > > # ifconfig xl0 media 10base2/BNC > > I get: > > # xl0: selecting AUI media, half-duplex > > and a kernel panic (trap 12). > > The BNC cable itself works with another box. More information below. > Any help appreciated. > > Karol > > > uname: > > FreeBSD 6.1-SECURITY #0: Mon Aug 28 05:21:08 UTC 2006 > root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 > > > verbose dmesg: > > xl0: <3Com 3c905B-COMBO Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem > 0xfebffc00-0xfebffc7f irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 > xl0: Reserved 0x80 bytes for rid 0x14 type 3 at 0xfebffc00 > xl0: using memory mapped I/O > xl0: media options word: 3a > xl0: found MII/AUTO > miibus0: on xl0 > xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0 > xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > xl0: found AUI > xl0: found BNC > xl0: bpf attached > xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:76:ed:66:97 > xl0: [MPSAFE] > > > vmstat -i: > > interrupt total rate > irq0: clk 561773 997 > irq1: atkbd0 257 0 > irq5: rl0 48 0 > irq6: fdc0 11 0 > irq8: rtc 71886 127 > irq10: xl0 3 0 > irq14: ata0 2139 3 > irq15: ata1 47 0 > Total 636164 1129 > > > -- > Karol Kwiatkowski > OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc > > > >