From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Aug 21 16:29:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA13053 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:29:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from moonpie.w8hd.org (moonpie.w8hd.org [198.252.159.14]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA13048 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 16:29:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (kimc@localhost) by moonpie.w8hd.org (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id TAA00336 for ; Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:29:07 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: moonpie.w8hd.org: kimc owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 21 Aug 1996 19:29:07 -0400 (EDT) From: Kim Culhan To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: de driver bug? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 21 Aug 1996, Andrew Webster wrote: > 2. When there is no cabled plugged into the adapter, the kernel during > probing, configures it for the AUI (doesn't have one) port. Once the > system has booted, you have to initialize it with ifconfig {params} > -link2 to get the UTP port to work again, but just ifconfig > (before init) doesn't show that link2 is infact on. This took a few > minutes to figure out what was really going on! Not to confuse the issue but.. Recently I built a machine with a couple 'no brand' DC21040-based boards. It was found after some considerable hassle that the slot position had some bearing on the reliability of active port detection. At this point it appears to detect with 100% reliablilty; this on -current from about mid June. regards kim -- kimc@w8hd.org