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From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM>
Subject: Re: Any patch for fxp driver? 
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> On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 09:18:17PM +0200, Mats Dufberg wrote:
> > As have been reported in this list the driver for the fxp device is broken
> > in 4.3-RELEASE and -*-STABLE. It stops with SCB timeout messages. Could
> > anyone advice any patch that will solve the problem?
> > 
> >      fxp - Intel EtherExpress Pro/100B ethernet device driver
> >      PCI Fast Ethernet adapters based on the Intel i82557 ethernet chip.
> > 
> > 
> 
> It is not currently broken and I don't believe it was in 4.3-RELEASE, 
> it broke about 3 weeks ago, but it has been fixed, do you have 
> PNPOS=YES in the bios?

Another "failure" mode that I noticed with the new fxp driver is that
sometimes auto-negotiation doesn't work.  I fixed my problem by
explicitly configuring the media type and mediaopts in rc.conf and
all is happy (for me, anyway) again.

This was with a fairly bizzare-o Motorola Pentium CompactPCI single
board computer with an fxp intergrated LAN controller.

louie

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