Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:05:45 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: jesusr@ncsa.es Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pn driver problem Message-ID: <19990330200546.14D1B14DBC@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <01be7aa5$97c33da0$8632b3c2@demostenes.ncsa.es> from Jesus Rodriguez at "Mar 30, 99 02:05:24 pm"
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> Hello... > > I have some Pnic ethernet cards (Matrox NIC-100/1), some with "Pnic > LC82C169" chip and others with "Pnic LC82C168" chip. Both are reconigzed > by pn driver but dmesg says: > > Card with LC82C169 it's ok: > > pn1: <82c168/82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x20 int a irq 5 on pci0.10.0 > pn1: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:21:40:2f > pn1: autoneg complete, link status good (half-duplex, 10Mbps) > > Card with LC82C168 doesn't work ok: > > pn0: <82c168/82c169 PNIC 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x11 int a irq 10 on pci0.9.0 > pn0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:cc:5c:39:45 > pn0: MII without any phy! > > Where can be the problem? The problem is that boards with the 82C168 chip don't use MII-based PHYs. Unfortunately, these chips are fairly old and there aren't as many on the market now as the newer 82C169, and I have not been able to obtain one for testing. If I can't get a card to actually test, I can't make the driver work with it. I should be able to make the older chip work given the documentation that I have, but unless somebody wants to actually donate a board to me with this chipset, I can't actually do it. And no, I am _NOT_ going to do any long distance debugging on this. I'm not going to do any half-assed experimental patches for people to try and then spend weeks going back and forth via e-email when it would take me probably only a couple of hours to actually make the changes if I had an actual card for testing. > Please, if you need more information let me > know. I have plenty of information. I just don't have a card. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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