Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2000 11:36:41 +0100 From: Steve Roome <steve@sse0691.bri.hp.com> To: Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com> Cc: imp@village.org, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, jim@siteplus.net Subject: Re: 4.1-RELEASE pccard? Message-ID: <20001003113641.I1786@moose.bri.hp.com> In-Reply-To: <200010021954.PAA45176@lakes.dignus.com>; from rivers@dignus.com on Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:54:13PM -0400 References: <200010021651.KAA12261@harmony.village.org> <200010021954.PAA45176@lakes.dignus.com>
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On Mon, Oct 02, 2000 at 03:54:13PM -0400, Thomas David Rivers wrote:
> Well, some news.
>
> I tried booting the kernel found on the 4.1.1-RELEASE kern.flp...
> and, guess what...
>
> <what?>
>
> I don't get the ed1 timeouts anymore; and a `ping' to an
> IP address on that line almost works...
>
> Note the *almost*...
>
> It seems packets go out the interface (as is evidenced by
> the flashing lights on the dongle - but pings, etc... don't work.
I had the same problem with a generic ne2000 compatible. For me it
turned out that no matter what i did FreeBSD couldn't find the MAC
address of the card properly. I did have it working properly with 3.x
for a while, and on installing 4.x (-stable) it stopped working.
After checking with DOS (as I'd no idea what the MAC address had been
under 3.x) it was just that simple, the new config for some reason
couldn't figure it out.
Even after dumping the entire card memory I couldn't find it anywhere
in there. Dunno why, I probably missed something really obvious but
opted for the quick ugly fix.
It might not be your problem, but it was easily/grottily solved with a
few lines like in /usr/src/sys/dev/ed/if_ed_pccard.c such as :
ether_addr[0] = 0;
ether_addr[1] = 0xe0;
.. etc..
ether_addr[5] = 0x26;
Nasty hack and all, not the right way etc. etc. but in a results
oriented world and all! =) Obviously I wouldn't advocate this sort of
kludgery, it's a pain for things like cvsup.
Steve
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