From owner-freebsd-mobile Sun Sep 2 10:46:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F61137B403 for ; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:46:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lungfish.ntlworld.com ([62.253.146.12]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010902174627.TBVD15984.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@lungfish.ntlworld.com>; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:46:27 +0100 Received: from boog.goatsucker.org (boog.goatsucker.org [192.168.1.3]) by lungfish.ntlworld.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f82HkN896594; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:46:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott@boog.goatsucker.org) Received: (from scott@localhost) by boog.goatsucker.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id SAA07878; Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:45:49 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from scott) Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:45:49 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: "Jose M. Alcaide" , Jamie Bowden , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xe0 and ifconfig Message-ID: <20010902184549.H379@localhost> References: <3B7905DD.A9F935B7@we.lc.ehu.es> <200108202152.f7KLqP205640@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i In-Reply-To: <200108202152.f7KLqP205640@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:25PM -0400 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:25PM -0400, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > >I am who reported that similar problem. The other "OS" ;-) is WinMe. > >The odd thing here is that we have two Xircom RE-100 (CE3-10/100) > >cards with different behavior: the old card (~18 months old) works fine > >under both Windows (Xircom driver version 2.05) and FreeBSD; however, the > >new card suffers from negotiation problems under FreeBSD (even when rebooted > >after Windows). > > I have seen similar problems with the etherexpress that comes with the > thinkpad a21p. > > As near as I can tell, the card is not reset properly on a soft > reboot. Linux after freebsd causes the kernel to hang, hard. FreeBSD > after win98 tends to either have problems or fail to configure the > card. My solution has been to remove both ac and battery to force it > to fully reset . . . Based on this and some other conversations I've had, it's starting to look like there's something subtly but seriously screwed in the way the xe driver initialises the card -- whether it's actually doing anything *wrong* or just failing to clean up the cruft left by the Windows driver is debatable, but a moot point really, as it doesn't work either way. I hope to be able to devote some time to this (finally) over the next couple of months. There's a couple of other people looking at it as well. I'll keep all you guys (and the list) up to date with any progress. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message