From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 18 11:26:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04989 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:26:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from crap.31337.net (crap.31337.net [194.109.86.254] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA04819 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 11:26:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alexlh@funk.org) Received: from nose (nose.funk.org [194.109.86.229]) by crap.31337.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00882 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 19:34:00 GMT (envelope-from alexlh@funk.org) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980918202600.00803630@crap.31337.net> X-Sender: alexlh@crap.31337.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 20:26:00 +0200 To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alex Le Heux Subject: 3Com 3c900-FL, The sequel Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all, Several people mailed me suggestions (all the same :-) for some small changes to pci/if_xl.c and pci/if_xlreg.h. So after waking up my ancient -current partition and waiting for hours while cvsup brought it up to date I applied them. The machine paniced during boot, complaining about mediatype bits. After some mucking about it now assumes the card uses the MII interface. Leaves only one question: Does it actually work? We bought the card to use it on the machine that has our primary connection to the net. This connection is now on a ST-AUI tranceiver. As there's constantly about a megabit of traffic over that line, lots of people would be very unhappy if I took it down to test my modifications. What I'm going to try is to connect the send- to the receive ports, and see if I can do some kind of loopback. If that doesn't work I'll contact a company I know and ask them (very sweetly) if I can borrow a tranceiver. If anyone has other suggestions, I'll be happy to hear them. Alex Le Heux --- Water water everywhere, and not a drop to drink Lusers lusers everywhere, and not a one can think - alt.sysadmin.recovery 18/08/98 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message