From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Oct 19 17:16:11 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA11397 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:16:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from pahtoh.cwu.edu (root@pahtoh.cwu.edu [198.104.65.27]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA11246; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:14:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu) Received: from opus.cts.cwu.edu (skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu [198.104.92.71]) by pahtoh.cwu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA18645; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:14:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (skynyrd@localhost) by opus.cts.cwu.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id RAA09457; Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:14:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Timmons Reply-To: Chris Timmons To: Robin Cutshaw cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , Peter Wemm , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New de driver in 2.2.5-BETA In-Reply-To: <19971019104510.16409@num1sun.intercore.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk link2 won't ever help you again - see de(4). I am running DEC DE500-XA cards. I built the world and the kernel a couple of hours ago, and adding "media 100baseTX" achieves the desired result (ie in place of link2 in the ifconfig for that interface.) One de driver difference between -current and 2.2.5-beta is that -current's ifconfig always shows you the media options, while 2.2.5-beta does so only if you say 'ifconfig -m', the documented behavior for both -stable and -current. I'm not sure if it is a feature or bug, but if your interface is ifconfig'ed when there is no carrier present (eg. first machine up on a crossover cable), ifconfig will tell you that there is no carrier even after link is established: 2.2.5-beta> ifconfig de0 de0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.9 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 192.168.1.15 ether 00:00:f8:01:10:ad media: 100baseTX status: no carrier current> ifconfig de0 de0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 192.168.1.15 ether 00:00:f8:01:12:e8 media: 100baseTX status: no carrier supported media: autoselect 100baseTX 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP Other than that the updated driver appears to work fine on the DE500, -current and 2.2.5-beta -Chris On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Robin Cutshaw wrote: > On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 09:32:17PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > And, as things would have it, Peter has just committed a last minute > > syncronization patch with Matt Thomas's latest to the de driver, > > meaning that *anyone* with a DC21xxx based card should very definitely > > install 2.2.5-971018-BETA from ftp.freebsd.org or one of its mirrors > > as soon as possible and let us know if it *doesn't* work. If it does > > work, great, you've nothing to worry about for 2.2.5. If it doesn't, > > we need to know about it instantly! ;) > > > > Still no joy. The de driver does not correctly detect 100 Mb/s mode > and link2 doesn't change anything. > > robin > -- > ---- > Robin Cutshaw internet: robin@interlabs.com robin@intercore.com > Internet Labs, Inc. BellNet: 404-817-9787 robin@XFree86.Org > > "Time is just one damn thing after another" -- PBS/Nova > ---- > -- >