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Date:      Tue, 30 May 2000 20:19:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        wpaul@freebsd.org
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Looking for testers for if_dc patches
Message-ID:  <200005310319.UAA20452@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000530072825.BE7E637BD62@hub.freebsd.org>
References:  <20000530072825.BE7E637BD62@hub.freebsd.org>

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In article <20000530072825.BE7E637BD62@hub.freebsd.org>,
Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> Several people have reported problems with if_dc botching autonegotiation
> on 21143 NICs with non-MII media, such as the DEC/Compaq DE500-BA and
> the built-in 10/100 ethernet on some alphas. As my first official act
> as a BSDi/WC employee, I sat down and tried to fix this. I produced
> some patches for if_dc.c/if_dcreg.h and dcphy.c, which are sitting at
> http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/dc_test.

I was one of the people having problems before.  These patches have
made it work great in my case.  It autonegotiates properly at boot-up.
It also comes back correctly if I unplug the cable and plug it back in
again.  Thanks for working on it, Bill!

John
-- 
  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa



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