Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 14:16:57 +0000 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> Subject: Re: How to make an Intel EtherExpress known to xe(4)? Message-ID: <20030129141657.GA39061@fishballoon.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20030128232145.J85085@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <20030125235520.A97813@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20030125230756.BC4195D06@ptavv.es.net> <20030127000131.B27981@uriah.heep.sax.de> <20030128015118.GQ56320@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20030128150749.GA29247@fishballoon.dyndns.org> <20030128232145.J85085@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:21:45PM +0100, Joerg Wunsch wrote: > As Scott Mitchell wrote: > > > That comment about not knowing what most of the config bits do was > > obviously written before I got hold of the programming manual :-) > > I'll have a look tonight and see what the 'CRC' bit actually does. > > Ah, didn't know you've got the docs now. It seems they are only available > under NDA, unfortunately. Xircom did put them up on their web site sometime back in 1999, right before they were bought by Intel. It had some kind of click-through licence and was quite hard to find. No idea if it's still available. > According to Werner Koch, the XIRCREG40_RMASK0 is not the register to > fiddle, it only contains an interrupt bit mask. There's another bit > that makes the chip not /sending/ a CRC, but he didn't find anything > quickly that would it make not delivering the CRC with the received > frame. I had a look through the manual and I agree entirely with Werner. I'm surprised nobody has noticed this problem before now -- the driver has been in -CURRENT for ages, although I didn't use it myself until last week. Anyway, I hope the patch can be committed soon, as it seems like it would solve this problem. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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