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Date:      Sun, 5 Dec 1999 23:43:15 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mohit Aron <aron@cs.rice.edu>
To:        dg@root.com
Cc:        wes@softweyr.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new Intel 100Mbps card
Message-ID:  <199912060543.XAA26211@cs.rice.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199912060524.VAA13359@implode.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Dec 5, 99 09:24:18 pm

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> 
>    From your other email it sounds like it has an 82559. Intel has been
> shipping that for more than a year as well on boards that ID as 0x1229,
> so apparantly the chip being used doesn't correlate with the ID number.

I mentioned another similar card in my last posting. That one I got from a
faculty member (he's Alan Cox - also works on FreeBSD). That card is very
similar (in looks and performance) to the one that I got but has the device ID
of 0x1229 (same as 10/100B). Additionally, Alan mentioned that some small
additional chips on it are supposed to do some kind of network mgmnt - I
believe that was the Wake-on-LAN feature. The card that I have, however, is
similar, but has a different PCI device_Id - 0x1030. So you're probably right
in that the chip doesn't correlate with the ID number.



> In this case I'd recommend changing the above defines to "FXP_DEVICE_ID_1"
> and "FXP_DEVICE_ID_2" respectively. If you are confident that your 0x1230
> Pro/100 is working correctly, including stuff related to manual selection
> of the speed and duplex, then I'll take care of making the changes to
> the driver.


Its 0x1030 - not 0x1230. I've tried it only in full-duplex and it works fine
(except for the truncated IP packets that I mailed about). My /etc/rc.conf has
"media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex" for the ifconfig command.  I was able to
get about 77 Mbps on a 100Mbps LAN with this card. With the older ones, I can
get about 93 Mbps (which is the maximum if packet headers are taken into
account).  The difference in performance is probably due to the truncated IP
packets I mentioned.

I can try other settings on this card if you can tell me which ones you're
interested in.




- Mohit


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