Date: Fri, 29 Aug 1997 08:39:02 -0700 (PDT) From: "Eric J. Schwertfeger" <ejs@bfd.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Cc: matt@3am-software.com Subject: Can anyone detail SMC vs de driver issues? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.970829081532.303A-100000@harlie.bfd.com>
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Basically, the company I work for has a "Buy from this vendor" policy, and that vendor only offers two 100mbit ethernet cards, the 3Com 900, and the SMC EtherPower (9332BDT). No-brainer, the SMCs are a much better card due to the 900's limited buffer. Now for the problem, as we all know, the SMC cards seem to be evolving at a rapid pace. I've got two of them, both 21140-AC based, but the smaller chips are different, and I can't get these to work with any of the following if-de.c (under 2.2.2); from 2.2.2 (which didn't even recognize the second card), from current, or from www.3am-software.com. I've verified that the cable works fine, and I'm connecting to either an SMC TigerHub TP12 (for 10mbit) or an EZ Switch Plus (for 100mbit). With one card, I get an almost instant partition at 10mbit, a blinking link light at 100mbit, and a message saying that autosense failed. With the other card, I get solid link lights, activity lights, but no packets make it to the OS. I suspect that if I lock the first card at 10 or 100mbit, that all I'm going to do is make the first act like the second, though I do plan on testing this when I can take my machine down (begin the only sane person in the office, my FreeBSD workstation has proven to be the best place to put the office DNS server and Intranet server, so I can't experiment during office hours).
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