From owner-freebsd-current Fri Sep 18 12:33:12 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA14735 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:33:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA14720 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:33:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA12668; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:32:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 12:32:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Alex Le Heux cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3Com 3c900-FL, The sequel In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980918202600.00803630@crap.31337.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 18 Sep 1998, Alex Le Heux wrote: > 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. You're probably running into the same thing I am with this 100baseT4 card. I need to get it hammered out before 3.0 goes out the door. (Sorry I haven't been able to get back to you Bill) > Leaves only one question: Does it actually work? Good question. What *is* the FL, a fiberoptic Ethernet card? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message