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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 1997 15:24:45 -0400 (EDT)
From:      spork <spork@super-g.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>
Cc:        Morgan Davis <mdavis@io.cts.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: de driver and 2.2.5 beta q's
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.971002152056.6187C-100000@super-g.inch.com>
In-Reply-To: <199710012048.NAA24653@GndRsh.aac.dev.com>

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Is there any chance of the problem with the genuine de cards locking up
when the link drops being fixed in 2.2.5?  

I cvsup-ed two days ago, and I still see the problem.  

To recap, if you have a Digital card,

de0 <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> rev 32 int a irq 12 on pci0:10
de0: DEC DE500-AA 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
de0: address 00:00:f8:03:66:e9

running 10M and you down the link by unplugging it, moving it to another
hub port, rebooting the hub, etc. it will not come back on it's own.  As a
workaround I've been using the 3am driver.  Is there a reason this hasn't
been integrated?  I've not seen any negative feedback about the other
driver, and it handles the above situation properly.

Thanks,

Charles

On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:

> > Please note this dmesg snippet:
> > 
> > FreeBSD 2.2.2-RELEASE #0: Tue Jun 10 11:54:28 PDT 1997
>           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> You are running a 2.2.2-RELEASE system, your mail subject said
> 2.2.5 beta, you would find that if you loaded 2.2.2-stable as
> over 60 days ago this problem was fixed:
> 
> revision 1.54.2.6
> date: 1997/08/02 17:44:50;  author: rgrimes;  state: Exp;  lines: +6 -3
> Add support for the newer SMC 9332BDT cards that have a different
> OUI (00:E0:29) to the older driver in 2.2, the new driver in 3.0
> should already handle this with the new PHY code.
> Reviewed by:	Several of my customers
> 
> >   ...
> ...
> > de0 <Digital 21140 Fast Ethernet> rev 18 int a irq 12 on pci0:9
> > de0: SMC 9332 21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.2
>        ^^^^^^^^
> > de0: address 00:00:c0:ad:51:dc
>                ^^^^^^^^
> > de0: enabling 10baseT port
> > de1 <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> rev 32 int a irq 10 on pci0:10
> > de1: 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
>        ^^^^^^^
> > de1: address 00:e0:29:05:d8:a5
>                ^^^^^^^^
> > de1: enabling 100baseTX port
> 
> After the above commit your new card will be identified as
> an SMC9332BDT, which it is.  Your older card is an SMC9332DST.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
> Accurate Automation, Inc.                   Reliable computers for FreeBSD
> 




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