Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 11:18:13 +0200 (IST) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Chris Peltier <CPELTIER@iectech.com> Cc: "'questions@FreeBSD.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: DE driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971017111402.5664D-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <97Oct16.152402edt.6182@netgate.iectech.com>
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On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Chris Peltier wrote:
>
> Is there a differance between the Digital
> DE500-AA and DE500-XA NIC cards as
> far as FreeBSD is concerned? The AA
Yes. The -XA uses the 21140 chip, while the -AA uses the newer -AC chips
(I think that's the letters they use, though I'm not sure. You can find
the exact chips by either looking on the boards or in the README files on
DEC's DOS/Windows drivers disks).
> board has a socket for a Boot ROM and
> the XA does not. I am having a problem
> with an older system (2.1.0 Release). I rebuilt
> the kernel to add support for de1 (I already have
> a DE500-XA board in the system - de0)
> and the device is detected but refuses to
> operate properly. The activity LED is always on
> when the board is initialized upon boot. ifconfig
> reports the board as up and available. Pings fail
> with network down. Problems occur only on
> the DE500-AA board. The XA boards work great.
> Any ideas? How about under 2.2.2?
Are you using the boards at 10mbps? If so, try ifconfig'ing it with
-link2. I'm not sure 2.1.0 supprted this at all. Later releases should
have no trouble with it. For example:
de0 <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> rev 32 int a irq 11 on pci0:12
de0: DE500-AA 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
de0: address 00:00:f8:02:c7:89
:
:
de0: link up: enabling 10baseT port
de0: enabling 10baseT port
harrison: {106} uname -v
FreeBSD 2.2-970705-RELENG #0: Fri Sep 12 14:49:20 IDT 1997
nadav@harrison.barcode.co.il:/usr/src/sys/compile/HARRISON
(and it also used to work on 2.2.2R).
>
>
> Sincerely,
> Chris Peltier
>
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>
>
>
Nadav
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