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Date:      Thu, 27 Sep 2001 07:55:43 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        dkelly@HiWAAY.net (David Kelly)
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel-for-Gateway2000 10/100 fxp problems
Message-ID:  <to46rtoieir8kfiu9po7gnkoujrg9f5cbh@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.1001554857.953365588@news.sentex.net>
References:  <SEN.1001554857.953365588@news.sentex.net>

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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: <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".
>

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)

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