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Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 16:47:43 +0100
To: spork <spork@super-g.com>, Donald Acton <acton@opentext.com>
From: Robin Melville <robmel@nadt.org.uk>
Subject: Re: de0 driver autosense fail... doesn't reset
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At 12:30 30/07/97 -0400, spork wrote:
>I'll take this one ;)
[...]
>I just had the same problem with another digital card.  Getting the
>"alternate" de driver from here:
>
>        http://www.3am-software.com/de-970703.tar.gz
[...]

At Wed, 30 Jul 1997 08:51:04 -0700, Donald Acton erote:
[...]
>I would suggest going to  3am Software's home page
>    http://www.3am-software.com/
>and checking out the tips there. I'd also get the new de drivers from that 
>page and install them. 
[...]
>The final 
>step to really get things going was to recompile the kernel with NMBCLUSTERS 
>set to 4096 with the following line in your kernel configuration file.
>
>options         NMBCLUSTERS=4096
[...]

Thanks for the tips. I've done that... The cards then would come back to
life, but insist on making the AUI port live (which is odd because they
have only a UTP port) :/

However, a little more research indicates that you can force UTP by doing
"ifconfig de0 link1". Setting them this way in rc.conf means that the cards
now come back online ok. 

Many thanks

Robin.

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