Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 11:24:14 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: FreeBSD current users <FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Still problems with PCCARD NICs Message-ID: <20030113005414.GF1120@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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I haven't done much with PCCARD on -CURRENT lately. Last time I
tried, a couple of months ago, I got repeated freezes on the two 100
Mb/s NICs I have. I've just built a kernel as of about 30 hours ago,
and I find:
1. Xircom RealPort RE-100 (xe driver).
Comes up with unidentified media. Doesn't react to dhclient.
Won't let me set the mediaopt. I have to first set a valid IP
address, after which it comes up as 100baseTX. I can't find a way
to set full-duplex, but maybe the card doesn't support it.
I tried to tar an NFS-mounted file system to see how fast it went:
tar cf /dev/null /src
Almost immediately, I got these messages, repeated frequently:
Jan 13 10:57:29 sydney kernel: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514)
Jan 13 10:58:13 sydney kernel: xe0: discard oversize frame (ether type 800 flags 3 len 1518 > max 1514)
I checked at the other end and confirmed that the frames were in
fact 1514 bytes long.
2. 3Com 3c905.
# ifconfig xl0
xl0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
ether 00:10:4b:f8:fd:20
media: Ethernet autoselect
# dhclient xl0
# ifconfig xl0
xl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::210:4bff:fef8:fd20%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
inet 192.109.197.89 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.109.197.255
ether 00:10:4b:f8:fd:20
media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP <half-duplex>)
# ifconfig xl0 mediaopt 100baseTX
ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured
Looking at the LEDs on the dongle and on the switch, this card is
in fact in 100baseTX full-duplex mode.
Starting the tar job mentioned before freezes the system within
seconds.
I'm available for testing this if anybody can tell me what to do.
Greg
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