From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jul 27 10:40:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA27845 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:40:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA27757 for ; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 10:40:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id GAA16516; Mon, 27 Jul 1998 06:10:59 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807271310.GAA16516@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Terry Lambert cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers? In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 08:26:10 -0000." <199807270826.BAA22455@usr08.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 06:10:58 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > You should talk to Doug Ambrisko about this. > > > > I would hope he'll drop into the discussion. > > Unfortunately, he has a life. 8-). Our loss, I guess. > > > I believe there were also problems with the hardware > > > autodetection, unlike the 82558 part. > > > > Detection of the PCI parts is, not surprisingly, trivial. > > Autodetection of the 100 vs. 10 rate, not autodetection of the device. That's "autonegotiation", and it's supposed to happen in hardware. This tends to contradict the claim that the AMD reference hardware works as-is... -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message