From owner-freebsd-net Wed Oct 7 15:54:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA14114 for freebsd-net-outgoing; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:54:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA14079 for ; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:53:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA04875; Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:24:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdTg4852; Wed Oct 7 22:24:00 1998 Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:23:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: David Greenman cc: Rich Fox , freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Pro/100B, unsupported type = 63, can't see network In-Reply-To: <199810071529.IAA13269@implode.root.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >If I do an ifconfig -a I get: > >fxp0 flags=8843 mtu 1500 > > inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255 > > ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff > > media: manual > > supported media: manual > > Yikes. Are you sure that is a Pro/100B card? It seems to have totally > failed to properly read the SRAM, including the ethernet MAC address. The > card WILL NOT WORK in this case, so don't waste anymore time trying to > test it. I wonder if the SRAM chip on the board might be different than the > standard chip, or if perhaps the chip is actually defective? I'll need more > info (like chip numbers, age of board, dmesg output, type of system this is > being put into, etc.) before I can make any further guesses. I happen to be an expert at this particular bug... the serial eeprom has failed or is in some way not readable by the ethernet chip I have one here that did the same... I replaced the eeprom and it was fine.. We have two of these on a card we have here and before I got the eeproms programmed we could probe the card suggessfully but we'd get these symptoms (all 1 values read during the probe) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message