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Date:      Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:36:57 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au>
To:        Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Cc:        Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: if_de driver woes 
Message-ID:  <200010030136.e931avG11062@netplex.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20001002194135.03828c80@mail.etinc.com> 

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Dennis wrote:
> It might be useful if someone familiar with the driver answered, but there 
> seems little  hope of that.

Nearly all the older (pre-100Mbit) tulip cards are different to the other
older ones.  The newer ones based on the 2114[0123] chips had a lot more in
common and generally required less tweaks.  Getting some random older
10Mbit card to work is somewhat a black art.

> Maybe the guy that broke it...which would mean someone who modified it 
> since 2.2.8 came out.
> 
> You know who you are....., but unfortunately the audit trail in the source 
> is useless since there is none.

Audit trails do not belong in the source. That is what source code management
systems are for:

http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/if_de.c

The majority of the changes were as a result of syncing up with the
original auther and later on some cleanup.  If you can find (specifically)
what change broke it, I'd love to hear from you.  I'd also like to know if
a NetBSD kernel runs with it or not.

> Dennis
> At 06:28 PM 10/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote:
> >
> > >At 02:01 AM 10/01/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> > >>On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Dennis wrote:
> > >>
> > >> >
> > >> >The saga continues. the de driver in 4.1 now doesnt properly detect the
> > >> >media of original SMC BNC cards. Upgrading an old system proved quite a
    n
> > >> >adventure.
> > >> >
> > >> >db
> > >>
> > >>You seem to have forgotten to attach dmesg, pciconf -l, the card model
> > >>name, description, and symptoms... maybe your mailer ate them?
> > >
> > >
> > >Oct  2 10:32:36 et-gw /kernel: de0: <Digital 21041 Ethernet> port 
> > 0xf880-0xf8ff
> > >mem 0xffbefe80-0xffbefeff irq 9 at device 17.0 on pci0
> > >Oct  2 10:32:36 et-gw /kernel: de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1
> > >Oct  2 10:32:36 et-gw /kernel: de0: address 00:00:c0:1a:49:d0
> > >
> > >I dont know the exact model, but the vendor ID is 1011 and the device IDs
> > >are 0x0014 and 0x0002. The 0x0014 device sets up with 10baseT media (there
> > >is only a coax BNC on the card, and the 0x0002 devices comes up with AUI
> > >and 10baseT/UTP capabilty, but there is only a coax BNC on the card, so yo
    u
> > >cant even set it to BNC manually.
> >
> >I'm not sure what and how 0x0014 and 0x0002 are used, but have you tried
> >ifconfig de0 media 10base2/BNC ?
> >
> >Also what does ifconfig de0 report for the supported media types(if any)?
> >My ed card supports tp and bnc but it doesnt report them in ifconfig, not
> >sure what de does.
> >
> >
> > >
> > >These worked just fine under 2.2.8.
> > >
> > >DB


Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au
"All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5



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