Date: Fri, 08 May 1998 04:53:38 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Stephen Roome <steve@visint.co.uk> Cc: "Dan Ts'o" <dan@dna.rockefeller.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress PRO/100+ PCI Message-ID: <199805081153.EAA13187@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 May 1998 10:03:45 BST." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980508095750.24458G-100000@dylan.visint.co.uk>
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>On Thu, 7 May 1998, Dan Ts'o wrote: >> > As I understand it, the PRO/100+ is just a PRO/100B, but fabricated >> > differently -- they figured out how to do it with one less chip. But >> > the interface is the same. >> >> An Intel support engineer told me that, although very similar, the >> Pro/100+ and Pro/100B are not identical at the software/driver level and >> that minor changes would probably be necessary to fully support the Pro/100+. >> He said that (at the time), since the Pro/100B was still on the market that >> if I was concerned, I should get the Pro/100B instead to avoid problems. > >We've got a couple of Pro/100+'s here and they don't work quite as >expected with the fxp driver. > >Occasionaly the cards stop responding to anything from the network (i.e. >they become 100% useless!), the machine is fine, but generally needs a >reboot before the card will function properly again. A couple of questions: Which version of FreeBSD is running on those machines? Are you sure that the cards are Pro/100+'s and not Pro/100B's? They look very similar, except the 100B has an extra chip. Are you using the cards in 10Mbps mode or 100Mbps mode? Are they connected to a hub or a switch? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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