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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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