Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:25:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 'xl'+DP83840 broken? Message-ID: <XFMail.010530222524.msch@snafu.de>
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Hello everybody! I have some problems with -STABLE since approx. May 15th with the 'xl' driver. It concerns the old 3Com 3C905 (without B or C) with the following (d)messages: xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe000-0xe03f irq 9 at device 12.0 on pci0 nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 The problem is: If I configure the NIC fixed with 100Mbit/full-duplex, i.e. 'ifconfig xl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex', the NIC becomes inoperable and a pure 'ifconfig xl0' reports: ... media: 100baseTX <full-duplex> status: no carrier ... and the activity-LED isn't flashing any more. This happens regardeless of the switch configuration. It doesn't matter if the switch is fixed with 100Mbit/full-duplex or is 'auto'. The NIC *does* work with 'media auto', but reports only '100baseTX' on a fixed (full-duplex) configured switch. It reports '100baseTX <full-duplex>' on a switch which is also configured for autonegotiation. I could *not* reproduce that behaviour on the same equipment with a 3C905*C* - with that NIC, all works fine (as usual with FreeBSD ;-). IIRC 4.3-STABLE around/shortly after the -RELEASE date hadn't these problems. Any ideas? Ciao/BSD - Matthias ---------------------------------- Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de> Solmsstrasse 44 Date: 30-May-01 D-10961 Berlin Time: 22:01:32 This message was sent by XFMail + FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE ---------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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