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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2003 11:00:50 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Marian Dobre <mari@onix.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 and standard PCI devices
Message-ID:  <20030312190050.GB86851@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <3E6F35F9.20201@onix.ro>
References:  <3E6F35F9.20201@onix.ro>

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On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 03:28:25PM +0200, Marian Dobre wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> I've installed FreeBSD 5.0 Sparc64  on a E450 and I'm trying to use=20
> standard PCI ethernet cards.

sparc64 questions should go to freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.org

> According to=20
> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/sparc64/support.html#ETH=
ERNET=20
> these cards are supposed to be supported but I can't get them to work.
> I've tried with both RTL8139 and 3COM905 cards. The cards are detected=20
> by the software but they dont send or receive any packet. I even=20
> recompiled all the software on the box and the kernel. They still don't=
=20
> work.
> This is the output of uname -a
> FreeBSD freebsd.onix.ro 5.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Sat=20
> Jan 18 07:39:17 CET 2003    =20
> root@freebsd.onix.ro:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  sparc64
> Please let me know if these are are supposed to be working on sparc64=20
> platforms.

You forgot to mention the device name(s).  It's possible the drivers
do not yet work on sparc64 machines because they contain non-portable
code.

Kris

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