From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 30 14:54:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-11.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F1D0237B424 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 14:54:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.demon.nl) Received: from [212.238.54.101] (helo=freebie.demon.nl) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.22 #1) id 155Duh-000BFP-00; Wed, 30 May 2001 21:53:59 +0000 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.demon.nl (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f4ULxhK01679; Wed, 30 May 2001 23:59:43 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:59:43 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Matthias Schuendehuette Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'xl'+DP83840 broken? Message-ID: <20010530235943.A1665@freebie.demon.nl> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from msch@snafu.de on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:25:24PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.3-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org 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 On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:25:24PM +0200, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: I guess see PR kern/27722 on www.freebsd.org Try the fix I present in that PR to see if it fixes your problem as well. Wilko [who feels the change to miibus should be backed out..] > 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? -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Powered by FreeBSD/alpha http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message