Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 10:31:45 +0000 From: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com> To: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Cc: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes), jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2-ALPHA is now available. Message-ID: <199611141031.KAA17892@whydos.lkg.dec.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 14 Nov 1996 17:52:07 %2B1100." <199611140652.RAA07940@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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In <199611140652.RAA07940@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> , you wrote:
> >> DEC DC21040, DC21041, or DC21140 based NICs (SMC Etherpower 8432T, DE245, etc)
> >
> >I know of _no_ current production DC21140 card that will work with
> >the if_de.c driver. SMC has discontiued the SMC9332DST, and makeing
> >the SMC9332BDT work requires hacking the driver. This is also true
> >of the D-Link DFE-500TX, Kingston KNE100TX, and the Compex board.
>
> I have a Digital DE500-AA here which the driver reports uses the DC21140A.
> It works fine with 2.2 (but not with 2.1.5). The only question I have
> about it is, is it supposed to auto-detect full duplex 100Mb/s connections?
> It reports:
>
> de0 <Digital DC21140A Fast Ethernet> rev 32 int a irq 10 on pci0:8
> de0: DE500-AA DC21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
> de0: address 00:00:f8:01:e7:8f
> de0: link up: enabling 100baseTX port
>
> regadless of whether the other end is full or half duplex. The output
> error rate seems higher when the other end is full duplex (BTW, the
> other end is a 100TX card in a Cisco Catalyst 3000 switch).
This patch should fix that problem.
*** if_de.c.orig Fri Jul 5 18:47:42 1996
--- if_de.c Thu Nov 14 09:24:39 1996
***************
*** 1276,1282 ****
* The link is now up. If was down, say its back up.
*/
if ((data & (PHYSTS_LINK_UP|PHYSTS_REMOTE_FAULT)) == PHYSTS_LINK_UP) {
! if ((sc->tulip_if.if_flags & IFF_NOAUTONEG) == 0) {
tulip_media_t media = tulip_dc21140_phy_readspecific(sc, phy);
if (media != sc->tulip_media && media != TULIP_MEDIA_UNKNOWN) {
sc->tulip_media = media;
--- 1276,1282 ----
* The link is now up. If was down, say its back up.
*/
if ((data & (PHYSTS_LINK_UP|PHYSTS_REMOTE_FAULT)) == PHYSTS_LINK_UP) {
! if (sc->tulip_if.if_flags & IFF_NOAUTONEG) {
tulip_media_t media = tulip_dc21140_phy_readspecific(sc, phy);
if (media != sc->tulip_media && media != TULIP_MEDIA_UNKNOWN) {
sc->tulip_media = media;
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