From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 27 4:55:50 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp1.sentex.ca (smtp1.sentex.ca [199.212.134.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCCC37B42C for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 04:55:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from chimp.simianscience.com (cage.simianscience.com [64.7.134.1]) by smtp1.sentex.ca (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f8RBthr93747; Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:55:43 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) From: Mike Tancsa To: dkelly@HiWAAY.net (David Kelly) Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel-for-Gateway2000 10/100 fxp problems Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:55:43 -0400 Message-ID: References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.8/32.548 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 27 Sep 2001 01:40:57 +0000 (UTC), in = sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > >The problem is the cards are recognized and initialized. Everything is=20 >perfect. Except they can't hear a thing off the wire. Or if they do=20 >they don't communicate it back to FreeBSD. Can watch the NIC LED and=20 >hub LED flash when emitting pings, and the target machine's NIC flash=20 >as well (forgot, that might not be a good test as its on a hub not=20 >switch).=20 How recent is your copy of stable ? 4.4R has a bunch of changes to the = fxp driver. > >dmesg seems happy: > >fxp0: 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: on miibus0 >inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > >ifconfig lists correct media and claims "status: active". > Try explicitly setting the media type. e.g.=20 ifconfig fxp0 media 100baseT/UTP > >Is there something goofy going on such as this card such as irq-A/B or=20 >??? Something simple? Maybe something to do with PnP? Make sure in the BIOS, plug and play OS is OFF > >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? Yes, in the BIOS, disable "Boot from LAN" ---Mike Mike Tancsa (mdtancsa@sentex.net) =09 Sentex Communications Corp, =09 Waterloo, Ontario, Canada "Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20 could setup a national IP network." (KDW2) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message