Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:52:09 -0700 (PDT) From: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Trouble with dc driver and DE500-BA card Message-ID: <200005212152.OAA94981@vashon.polstra.com> In-Reply-To: <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <XFMail.000520135732.jdp@polstra.com> <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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In article <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote: > > It didn't help. (BTW, what is "the problem" referred to in that log > > message?) > > The problem is a POLA violation -- every other alpha OS obeys the SRM > settings by default. Thanks for the info. > With this patch, if you do: > > >>> set ewa0_mode FastFD > > The driver will choose 100baseTX <full-duplex> when ifconfig'ed with > no args. Without this patch, it attempts to autonegotiate. OK. Unfortunately that's not a good solution for me. When I boot Tru64, it seems to work much better when it autonegotiates than when I try to lock it to FastFD with SRM. > I've found that if I hardcode the switch port AND the adapter to > 100baseTX <full-duplex>, everything works just dandy. Too bad -- my switch isn't that fancy. John -- John Polstra jdp@polstra.com John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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