From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jun 1 10:29:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 322CA37B827; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 10:29:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000601172913.MSPN13476.relay02@chello.nl>; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 19:29:13 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA99302; Thu, 1 Jun 2000 19:29:23 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 19:29:23 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: wc.bulte@chello.nl Cc: Bill Paul , Bernd Walter , current@FreeBSD.ORG, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for testers for if_dc patches Message-ID: <20000601192923.F99044@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte@chello.nl References: <20000530175945.A20508@cicely7.cicely.de> <20000530162946.C81A937B892@hub.freebsd.org> <20000531123051.A86871@freebie.wbnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000531123051.A86871@freebie.wbnet>; from wkb@chello.nl on Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:30:51PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 12:30:51PM +0200, Wilko Bulte wrote: > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:29:46AM -0700, Bill Paul wrote: > > > On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 12:28:25AM -0700, Bill Paul wrote: > > > > Several people have reported problems with if_dc botching autonegotiation > > > > on 21143 NICs with non-MII media, such as the DEC/Compaq DE500-BA and > > > > the built-in 10/100 ethernet on some alphas. As my first official act > > > > as a BSDi/WC employee, I sat down and tried to fix this. I produced > > > > some patches for if_dc.c/if_dcreg.h and dcphy.c, which are sitting at > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~wpaul/dc_test. To apply them, do the following: > > > > > > [...] > boards use the same PCI riser card that also contains the 21143 chip. > The patches don't seem to help on this particular hardware. I will try > to give the Alpha a spin too, later today. BTW: ifconfig-ing to use I finally got around to try the Miata MX5. In short: the problem is the same as on the x86. The de driver works OK. -- Wilko Bulte FreeBSD, the power to serve http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message