From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun May 21 14:52:15 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from wall.polstra.com (rtrwan160.accessone.com [206.213.115.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C677437B7F0 for ; Sun, 21 May 2000 14:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16953; Sun, 21 May 2000 14:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) From: John Polstra Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.9.3/8.9.1) id OAA94981; Sun, 21 May 2000 14:52:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Date: Sun, 21 May 2000 14:52:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005212152.OAA94981@vashon.polstra.com> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Subject: Re: Trouble with dc driver and DE500-BA card In-Reply-To: <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> References: <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In article <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>, Andrew Gallatin 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 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 , 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