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Subject: Re: vx driver(s) - bad powerup behaviour
To: gena@NetVision.net.il (Gennady Sorokopud)
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 1996 13:33:28 +0100 (MET)
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In reply to Gennady Sorokopud who wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> On 01-Nov-96 sos@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> [skip]
> >Have you tried the new driver in incoming ??, it fixed the up/down
> >problem for me, but I didn't see the other one. Remember that the
> >version in -current almost always says its a defective card,
> >even if it isn't :(
> Well, i just tried this new driver (i modified it a bit so it will compile on
> -current)
> 
> Now dmesg says:
> 
> vx0 <3Com 3c590 EtherLink III PCI> rev 0 int a irq 9 on pci0:11
> utp[*UTP*] address 0:20:af:f7:f2:dd
> Warning! Defective early revision adapter!
> 
> (somehow the other driver complained about "eeprom failed to become ready",
> isn't this weird?)
> 
> And the problem is still there (i.e. ifconfig vx0 up/down is required) :-(

I'm afraid that you have on of the early defective cards then :(
Try to see if you can get this verified with the dealer, they
should exchange it for a new one (at least here in DK they _should_)


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