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From: dennis@etinc.com (Dennis)
Subject: Re:  de driver bug?
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>>>  that it is having connection problems.  Unless you have a flakey network
>>>  it could be a flakey card.
>>
>>Ok...this is the scoop.
>>
>>I have a '486 PCI MB (ACER) with a genuine SMC ethernet card. The 
>>identical hardware (tested by swapping out hard disks)....
>
>My scoop:
>PCI SMC Etherpower 10baseT/10base2 ethernet card, on a dual 586-100 (labeled
>"pentium" though).
>
>>
>>1) Works in FreeBSD 2.1.0R
>>2) Works in Linux 2.0.0
>>3) Doesnt work in FreeBSD 2.1.5R. The installation boot procedure (NFS)
>>fails,and a system built on another machine finds but cannot use the de card.
>
>Exact same thing: worked with FreeBSD 2.1 Release, FreeBSD 2.2-current (end
>of July) broke it.
>
>My Fix:
>I use 10base2, and it never said "de0: enabling Thinwire/BNC port" after
>I installed FreeBSD-current.  So I figured the media probe failed, and added
>
>/* Added by TOJ, to attempt to force 10base2   */
>sc->tulip_media=TULIP_MEDIA_BNC;
>/* End TOJ */
>
>at line 1842 of /usr/src/sys/pci/if_de.c
>
>Its worked ever since.

Alas, this isnt the problem I'm seeing (I've tried 2.1.5 on a different MB...a 
pentium and it still doesnt work). I get the "enabling AUI...or 10baseT" message
(I've tried both BNC and TP)...still no good. I'm going to try the 2.1R
driver in
2.1.5 to see if that works.....

Dennis
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