From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 14:45:30 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA05830 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:45:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.virginia.edu (mail.Virginia.EDU [128.143.2.9]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id OAA05817 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 14:45:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from archive.cs.virginia.edu by mail.virginia.edu id aa04049; 18 Apr 97 17:45 EDT Received: from stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (atf3r@stretch-fo.cs.Virginia.EDU [128.143.136.14]) by archive.cs.Virginia.EDU (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA15908; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:45:19 -0400 (EDT) Received: by stretch.cs.Virginia.edu (4.1/SMI-2.0) id AA23840; Fri, 18 Apr 97 17:45:17 EDT Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:45:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" Reply-To: adrian@virginia.edu To: Terry Lambert Cc: adrian@virginia.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC 21140-Ax problems resolved? In-Reply-To: <199704182123.OAA02842@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Terry Lambert wrote: > > [ 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. I tried -link{0,1,2} and none of them made a difference. > 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). Specifically the chip is a 21140-AC. That's not too new. Which files do I need to get in addition to if_de.c? I tried this route, but I must have mised something, because it wouldn't compile. thanks, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| Support your local programmer, System Administrator --->>>| STOP Software Patent Abuses NOW! NVL, NIIMS and Telemedicine Labs -->>| For an application and information Member: League for Programming Freedom ->| see: http://www.lpf.org/