From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Sep 15 15:23:33 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA18478 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 15:23:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from orion.webspan.net (root@orion.webspan.net [206.154.70.41]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA18472 for ; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 15:23:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orion.webspan.net (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA19460; Sun, 15 Sep 1996 18:23:06 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: orion.webspan.net: Host gpalmer@localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Robin Cutshaw cc: gilham@csl.sri.com (Fred Gilham), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org From: "Gary Palmer" Subject: Re: 2.2-960801-SNAP--Problem with SMC 10/100 card and SMC 100mb `tiger hub' In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 13 Sep 1996 21:13:08 EDT." <199609140113.VAA28902@intercore.com> Date: Sun, 15 Sep 1996 18:23:06 -0400 Message-ID: <19457.842826186@orion.webspan.net> Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Robin Cutshaw wrote in message ID <199609140113.VAA28902@intercore.com>: > > > > > > I've noticed that running the 2.2-960801 snap causes the de driver to > > fail to link up to the 100mb SMC tiger hub that we're experimenting > > with. It always reports > > > > de0: enabling 10baseT port > > > > I had to add "link2" to the ifconfig of the device to get it to > switch to 100Mb mode. Autosensing doesn't seem to work. There is a known problem in -current wrt. the if_de code. Apparently David Greenman has a set of patches in his inbox to fix them, but they haven't surfaced yet. On a -current machine here I suspected the driver may have locked up the machine (pure speculation btw), so I dropped the 2.1.5-RELEASE driver in without problems. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info