From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 8 2:23:52 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from merlin.onsea.com (p40s11a01.client.global.net.uk [195.147.139.65]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE7DC41BD for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 02:23:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dozprompt@localhost) by merlin.onsea.com (8.9.3/8.9.2) with ESMTP id KAA00650; Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:22:53 GMT (envelope-from dozprompt@onsea.com) X-Authentication-Warning: merlin.onsea.com: dozprompt owned process doing -bs Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 10:22:53 +0000 (GMT) From: Cliff Rowley To: Kevin Leung Cc: "Aaron D. Gifford" , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ethernet troubles (KNE100TX and de0/dc0) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The problem is exactly the same with the NetGear FA310TX I have in my gateway box. Luckily the problem isnt too drastic for me, since the box' only internet connectivity is 56k, hardly likely to max out a 10baseT connection ;) My card, however, works without a problem under other operating systems. It can only be said that the driver is at fault here. Whether it be because the driver is young, and not yet fully featured I cant tell, but I mailed the author some time ago, and recieved no response. I can only suggest that you try the same, and ask him what the status is. The author (as detailed at the head of /usr/src/sys/pci/if_pn.c) is Bill Paul, wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu. Cliff Rowley - while (!asleep) { code(); } On Tue, 8 Feb 2000, Kevin Leung wrote: > > I have this card, but it uses the Lite-On chip. I did > experience problems with the Lite-On chip not being able to > recieve at 100BaseT. I am using this in an OpenBSD system. > Could there be something wrong with the drivers? If you force > it to 10BaseT, it works fine. Do a man on ifconfig, it has to > do with the option "media". > > > -Kevin > > On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Aaron D. Gifford wrote: > > > The problem: > > ------------ > > My new Kingston KNE100TX 10/100 PCI ethernet card is not working > > with FreeBSD. It refuses to work either under -STABLE or -CURRENT. > > >From the response to my last post regarding this problem on questions, > > I thought it might be a bad card. I booted the box in question to Win98 > > and the card worked perfectly, communicating with my other Win98 box > > across a crossover cable at 100TX speed. Whenever I boot to FreeBSD, > > however, the card lights light perfectly (identically to the Win98 boot) > > but no traffic is transmitted or received. The other box remains running > > Win98. No hardware changes were made. The cable and card are known to > > work. This card appears to be supported from all I've been able to glean > > from the archives. It uses a DEC clone chipset made by Intel, a 21143 > > chipset. It is a brand new card. > > > > Here are other relevant details: > > > > Hardware: > > --------- > > PII-350 w/64MB RAM > > Number9 Motion771 PCI video card > > Kingston EtheRx KNE100TX 10/100 PCI NIC card w/Intel DEC clone 21143 > > > > Software: > > --------- > > 4.0 kernel is taken from the kernel floppy of the -CURRENT snapshot > > dated 25 Jan. 2000 but the de0 driver in 3.4-STABLE behaved > > almost identically (except no errors were logged) before I brought > > the box to -CURRENT > > > > ifconfig reports: > > ----------------- > > dc0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > inet 10.20.30.1 netmask 0xfffffffc broadcast 10.20.30.3 > > ether 00:c0:f0:4c:26:ef > > media: autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active > > supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX > > 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UDP none > > > > I see the following on the console: > > ----------------------------------- > > dc0: watchdog timeout > > dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state > > dc0: watchdog timeout > > dc0: failed to force tx and rx to idle state > > > > netstat -in reports: > > -------------------- > > Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs Coll > > dc0 1500 00:c0:f0:4c:26:ef 0 0 0 4 0 > > dc0 1500 10.20.30/30 10.20.30.1 0 0 0 4 0 > > > > I wish I had more from when I was running -STABLE, but I don't. > > > > So, any ideas? Any insights? I'm stumped. > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Aaron out. > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message