From owner-freebsd-hardware  Tue Mar 30 12: 5:46 1999
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Subject: Re: pn driver problem
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Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 12:05:45 -0800 (PST)
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From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul)
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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 



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