Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 23:48:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Klaus Werner Krygier <krygier@kph.uni-mainz.de> To: adrian@virginia.edu Cc: FreeBSD Hackers List <hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: DEC 21140-Ax problems resolved? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.970418232452.29149B-100000@krygierpc.kph.uni-mainz.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970418112013.19732L-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Adrian T. Filipi-Martin wrote: > > 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 am also very interested in this problem, because we have five new powerful machines ready to run but they can't be used with FreeBSD for this reason. And I don't want to switch to Linux which seems to work very well with the same hardware. > 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 am using a DEC EtherWORKS adapter DE520-AA with a DEC 21140-AB chip and have the same problem. The behaviour is exactly identical as you described. > 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. I have tried to boot NetBSD directly and had the same problems too. Regards, Klaus Werner Krygier +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dr. Klaus Werner Krygier | Email: krygier@kph.uni-mainz.de | | Institut für Kernphysik | | | Johannes Gutenberg-Universität | Tel: +49-6131-39-2960 | | J.J.Becher-Weg 45 | +49-6131-39-5192 | | D-55099 Mainz | Fax: +49-6131-39-2964 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
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