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To: francis yeung <fyeung@netific.com>
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Subject: Re: 2.1.5 and if_de problem 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 23 Jul 1996 14:52:52 -0000."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 19:38:33 -0700
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>	Does anyone have any problem with the DE ethernet driver in
>	the 2.1.5 Release ?

   The driver that is in 2.1.5 is identical to the version that is in 2.1.0;
there were no changes made to it. Just FYI...the problem is obviously
elsewhere (PCI code, perhaps?).

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project


>	During the booting of 2.1.5, the DE ethernet is disabled 
>	(the card active lite is turned off). It does not happen
>	in the 2.1 kernel. 
>
>	It can't transmit with 2.1.5. 
>
>	I have tried "ifconfig de0 -altphys 10baseT/UTP port" but
>	it has no effect.
>
>	The same DE ethernet card and configuration works in
>	2.1 without any problem.
>
>	Thanks.
>
>	Francis