Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 20:40:36 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@HiWAAY.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Intel-for-Gateway2000 10/100 fxp problems Message-ID: <200109270140.f8R1eaw27239@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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Vaguely remember someone else having problems with Gateway 2000 brand Intel Etherexpress 10/100 "clones" using the 82559 but searching the mail archives at http://www.freebsd.org/search failed to turn up the hits I was looking for. And now I have problems with same. Bought (4) of these cards for a reasonable price. Reasonable if they work. Not reasonable for dust collectors. The problem is the cards are recognized and initialized. Everything is perfect. Except they can't hear a thing off the wire. Or if they do they don't communicate it back to FreeBSD. Can watch the NIC LED and hub LED flash when emitting pings, and the target machine's NIC flash as well (forgot, that might not be a good test as its on a hub not switch). dmesg seems happy: fxp0: <Intel Pro 10/100B/100+ Ethernet> port 0xdc80-0xdcbf mem 0xff000000-0xff0f ffff,0xff100000-0xff100fff irq 11 at device 15.0 on pci0 fxp0: Ethernet address 00:03:47:0c:64:44 inphy0: <i82555 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto ifconfig lists correct media and claims "status: active". Systems are Dell Optiplex GXa's. Worried more about onboard xl0's working, but at the moment that's the only NIC which works. Have moved the Intel NICs to each and every PCI slot one at a time. I don't have Windows to know if they work with that. Is there something goofy going on such as this card such as irq-A/B or ??? Something simple? Maybe something to do with PnP? While I'm testing my luck, if I get them working, anyone know how to disable the "Intel network boot thingie 2.6 initiallizing" message at startup? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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