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Subject: DEC DE500-BA supported?
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From: MIHIRA "Sanpei" Yoshiro <sanpei@yy.cs.keio.ac.jp>
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>This is a new card which apparently has replaced the DE500-AA.  It uses
>the DEC 21143 chip.  The if_de.c driver appears to support this, but does
>anyone have any actual experience with stable.

   I tested 2.2.2-RELEASE box with latest de driver[1].

  I use 100BASE-T(half duplex) about two months, there are no
problem.  

  I think Auto sense mode has some problem(1997/10/20 version of
if_de).  I set statically 100baseTX via ifconfig link option as
below.

ifconfig_de0="inet 131.113.y.z  netmask 255.255.255.0 link0 link1 -link2"

[1] Matt Thomas's de driver page.
http://www.3am-software.com/

[2] dmesgs
de0 <Digital 21143 Fast Ethernet> rev 48 int a irq 9 on pci0:11
de0: DEC DE500-BA 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0
de0: address xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
de0: media: 1="10baseT" 2="Full Duplex 10baseT" 3="100baseTX" 4="Full Duplex 100baseTX"

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Yoshiro MIHIRA
Dr. Candidate, Yamamoto Lab.
Department of Computer Science
Keio University. Yokohama, Japan