From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 2 22:38:54 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA29127 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:38:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ada.somerville.qld.edu.au ([203.16.236.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA29121 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 22:38:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from alex@muse.org.au) Received: from titania (titania [203.16.236.6]) by ada.somerville.qld.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.11) with SMTP id PAA19371 for ; Mon, 3 Aug 1998 15:46:39 +1000 Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19980803153919.009ee150@ada.somerville.qld.edu.au> X-Sender: alexh@ada.somerville.qld.edu.au X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Mon, 03 Aug 1998 15:39:19 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Alex Helbig Subject: ACER 10/100 Ethernet Card in 2.2.7-RELEASE Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi All, I am having some hassles with the above mentioned card. This card uses a digital 21140-AF chip which 2.2.7 recognises as de0. The card is 10/100 autosensing. I have just upgraded from 2.2.6-RELEASE to 2.2.7-RELEASE. In the 2.2.6 machine the card I used was a 3Com 3c905-TX 10/100 autosense card. The supported hardware list indicates that the code to support this model 3Com card was a little buggy so I thought I'd use the opportunity to change cards when I changed to the new release 2.2.7. Since the upgrade I have installed and everything is working correctly, except that roughly every two seconds I get a message on the console saying: de0: link down: cable problem? But it all works! Any ideas why the error message? Points to note: * I am running up the box on a 10Mb segment not the 100Mb where it will eventually be. But the 3com card was quite happy yo move back and forth between speeds. * I never tried the DEC based card under 2.2.6 to know if the problem existed there too. * I have tried using ifconfig to set each of the LINK0-2 flags and no setting of this seems to make any difference. Suggestions appreciated. Cheers Alex. \\\/// / _ _ \ (| (.)(.) |) ----------------.OOOo--()--oOOO.------------------- Alex Helbig Somerville House Head Of I.T 17 Graham Street ph 07 3248 9224 South Brisbane ahelbig@somerville.qld.edu.au Qld Australia -----------------.oooO----------------------------- ( ) Oooo. \ ( ( ) \_) ) / (_/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message