From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 30 13:25:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from smart.visp-europe.psi.com (smart.visp-europe.psi.com [212.222.105.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A8A937B422 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 13:25:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msch@snafu.de) Received: from ns10-n67-038.de.inter.net ([213.73.67.38] helo=mscu.best-eng.de) by smart.visp-europe.psi.com with esmtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 155CWy-0003Fe-00 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 May 2001 22:25:24 +0200 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 22:25:24 +0200 (CEST) Reply-To: Matthias Schuendehuette Organization: Private site running FreeBSD From: Matthias Schuendehuette To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: 'xl'+DP83840 broken? Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: 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 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 ' 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 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