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Subject: Re: 2.2-960501-SNAP and Digital DC21041 Ethernet - some errors.
To: steve@gordian.com (Steve Khoo)
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1996 19:39:31 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <199606130152.SAA15400@delphi.gordian.com> from Steve Khoo at "Jun 12, 96 06:52:22 pm"
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> >>>>> "Dmitri" == "Dmitri Beloslioudtsev" <dnb@orgland.zgrad.ru> writes:
> 
>     Dmitri> Hello!
> 
>     Dmitri> I have a problem using Digital DC21041 Ethernet PCI card
>     Dmitri> with 2.2-960501-SNAP.  Seems to me that the driver can't
>     Dmitri> correctly determine the type of ethernet media (I have
>     Dmitri> BNC). But if I boot linux or boot DOS and run card's
>     Dmitri> diagnostic program, then after reboot FreeBSD works
>     Dmitri> correctly and flawlessly.  Like linux or diagnostic
>     Dmitri> program "cure" the card and after that FreeBSD works OK.
>     Dmitri> If I try to boot FreeBSD immediately after power on, it
>     Dmitri> hangs almost at end of kernel boot process immediately
>     Dmitri> before running init.  If I change the cards in the slots I
>     Dmitri> was able to boot FreeBSD, but in that case the network
>     Dmitri> card is not working and commands like 'arp -a' hangs (but
>     Dmitri> can be terminated).
> 
> I got a similar problem in 2.2-960501-SNAP.  The SMC Etherpower 10/100
> cards in my P6 keep coming up in 100BaseT while it's only connected to
> 10BaseT network.  It's happening more than 50% during reboot.  It's
> getting worse now since we have two of those cards in the system now.
> Is there a way to force it to do 10BaseT instead?

Yes, add -link2 to the ifconfig string in /etc/sysconfig, that should
force it back to 10BaseT.


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