Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2004 12:25:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Ambrisko <ambrisko@ambrisko.com> To: "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@neville-neil.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lnc0 in VmWare doesn't work Message-ID: <200408151925.i7FJPY77070941@ambrisko.com> In-Reply-To: <m2oeldcxg2.wl@minion.local.neville-neil.com>
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FYI, if you are using a newer version of vmware we ran into a bug in
which the virtual NICs are reset as the system boots up. So once
interrupts are enabled you get a "storm" of packets ignored by driver.
Here is a patch for -stable that should be close for -current etc.
Index: sys/i386/isa/if_lnc.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /usr/local/cvsroot/freebsd/src/sys/i386/isa/Attic/if_lnc.c,v
retrieving revision 1.68.2.5
diff -u -p -r1.68.2.5 if_lnc.c
--- sys/i386/isa/if_lnc.c 13 Feb 2002 00:43:10 -0000 1.68.2.5
+++ sys/i386/isa/if_lnc.c 24 Mar 2004 16:12:00 -0000
@@ -1244,6 +1244,8 @@ lnc_attach_sc(struct lnc_softc *sc, int
ether_ifattach(&sc->arpcom.ac_if, ETHER_BPF_SUPPORTED);
+ lnc_init(sc);
+
printf("lnc%d: ", unit);
if (sc->nic.ic == LANCE || sc->nic.ic == C_LANCE)
printf("%s (%s)",
@@ -1338,6 +1340,8 @@ lnc_init(xsc)
s = splimp();
lnc_stop(sc);
+ inw(sc->rdp + PCNET_RESET - PCNET_RDP);
+ outw(sc->rdp + PCNET_RESET - PCNET_RDP, 0);
sc->arpcom.ac_if.if_flags |= IFF_BROADCAST | IFF_SIMPLEX | IFF_MULTICAST; /* XXX??? */
/*
Doug A.
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