From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 14:24:20 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA04441 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.50]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA04436 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id OAA02842; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:23:06 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199704182123.OAA02842@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: DEC 21140-Ax problems resolved? To: adrian@virginia.edu Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:23:06 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" at Apr 18, 97 11:23:57 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > [ N.B. This ia an augmneted repost that drew ] > [ little response from freebsd-questions. ] > > I searched the mail archives and find no mention of the problem > with this chipset after mid-March. Has the problem with the de0 driver > been resolved? > > I get the same problems I found in many of the posts. The link > light is on for out 10Base-T hub, then it goes off after the kernel probes > and switches the device into 100Base-T mode. > > I have tried using the NetBSD driver as well as the -currrent > one. In both cases the kernel won't compile. In the -current case, I > think I may have missed a crucial file. The NetBSD may just be to far > out of synch. >From what I recollect, this isn't a driver problem, it's a link flag problem. Use 'man ifconfig' and modify your /etc/sysconfig appropriately to get the other link. Also from what I recollect, there are three modes: "autosense", "specific link", and "CMOS default setting". I believe the driver selects the third. If that fails, the NetBSD driver was recently announced as ported on the -current list (which is probably a better place to look, especially if the 'x' in your '-Ax' is recent, since your card may have overflow problems which need to be worked around in software). Regards, Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.