Date: Thu, 16 Dec 1999 14:30:13 -0800 From: Dan Yergeau <yergeau@gloworm.Stanford.EDU> To: Andy Small <andysmidgen@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linksys tulip card? Message-ID: <199912162230.OAA14761@outpost.Stanford.EDU> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 15 Dec 1999 16:50:12 PST." <19991216005012.10221.qmail@web210.mail.yahoo.com>
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If it is a really old Linksys (with a real Dec tulip chip), use the "de" driver. If it is an older Linksys LNE100TX (with a 82c168 or 82c169), do as others have suggested and use the "pn" driver. If it is a relatively new Linksys LNE100TX (v2.0; with the 82c115 PNIC II chip; this is the card that I have), you will want to use the latest rev of the appropriate branch (RELENG_3 if you are running 3.x) of the "mx" driver. PNIC II support was added between FreeBSD 3.2 and 3.3, but the driver distributed in 3.3-RELEASE has a few bugs (it sometimes incorrectly negotiates 100baseT4 leading to a kernel panic). You can get the latest driver sources from http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/Attic/if_mx.c Click on the 1.8.2.9 rev for the latest (last) in RELENG_3 http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/Attic/if_mxreg.h Click on the 1.2.2.5 rev for the latest (last) in RELENG_3 (only needed if you don't have 3.3-RELEASE) From the cvs logs, there also appears to be a new merged driver, "dc", that supports real Dec tulips and workalikes such as the 82c16[89] and the 82c115. It is not clear to me whether those driver sources are appropriate for 3.X (-STABLE), or if they will only work with 4.X (-CURRENT). Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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