From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 18 17:30:29 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA16268 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:30:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from krygierpc.kph.uni-mainz.de (krygierpc.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.132.24]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA16261 for ; Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:30:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (krygier@localhost) by krygierpc.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA29821; Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:30:13 +0200 (CEST) X-Authentication-Warning: krygierpc.kph.uni-mainz.de: krygier owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Apr 1997 02:30:13 +0200 (CEST) From: Klaus Werner Krygier To: Matt Thomas cc: FreeBSD Hackers List Subject: Re: DEC 21140-Ax problems resolved? In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19970418193546.008f8d24@www.3am-software.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Matt Thomas wrote: > > >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. > > There is no DE520-AA. do you mean DE500-XA? No. The DE520-AA is no standard PCI card but a PCM adapter. We use also DE500-XA interfaces. They work fine. > > >> 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. > > What version of NetBSD? The driver only went recently. > NetBSD 1.2 > look at http://www.3am-software.com/ifmedia.html > -- Thank you for this hint. I have just spent some hours to generate a new FreeBSD kernel with the if_de/ifmedia code of NetBSD-current without success. Your information will help me to save a lot of additional time. 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 | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------+