Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:17:00 -0800 (PST) From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) To: ccrider@whiterose.net (Robert Myers) Cc: thorsten@trampisch.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NetGear FA312 NIC Message-ID: <20010116001700.2F62937B6A1@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <000301c07f4c$e612fce0$0201a8c0@ccrider2k> from Robert Myers at "Jan 15, 2001 03:52:05 pm"
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> > I have a NetGear FA312 NIC. Until 4.1-RELEASE it was not
> > supported by FreeBSD.
> > Now under 4.2-RELEASE it will be detected as sis0.
> >
> > It set up the network and everything seems fine. The sis0
> > device is locally
> > pingable. But I cannot ping the other side of the network.
> >
> > Is the FA312 supported or not or am I doing something wrong?
> > I spent hours on trying to bring it up.
> >
> > I would be glad, if anyone could help me with this problem.
>
> Thorsten,
GRRRRR. My, goodness: a double dose of ranting. Let's deal with
these in reverse order.
> I searched back through the archives, a post from the 18th of December
> states that the
> 312 is not supported under FreeBSD.
Wrong. Read what he said:
> > Now under 4.2-RELEASE it will be detected as sis0.
I added support for the NatSemi DP83815 chip (which is what's on the
FA311 and FA312 cards) in 4.1.1-RELEASE. It should work just fine with
the if_sis driver. The SiS 900 chip as a similar programming API to
the DP83815, so I modified the sis driver to handle it in order to avoid
code duplication.
As for the original problem:
> > It set up the network and everything seems fine. The sis0
> > device is locally
> > pingable. But I cannot ping the other side of the network.
For the umpity-umpth time: being able to ping your own IP address
MEANS NOTHING. You are not accomplishing anything by doing this,
other than verifying that the loopback interface is running. I'm sick
to death of seeing reports that say 'I can ping myself but I can't
ping anything else.' You're just wasting time. Knock it off. Learn
to do some real troubleshooting, like looking at netstat or ifconfig,
or the blinkylights on the card.
> > Is the FA312 supported or not or am I doing something wrong?
Well, you didn't tell us what you did, so how are we supposed to tell?
Here's how this works: you give us a detailed description of what steps
you took, and then we can tell you where you went wrong. ("Duh, but I
thought I would post first to see if this problem sounded familiar to
someone." NO! WRONG! BAD LUSER, NO BISCUIT!)
> > I spent hours on trying to bring it up.
...
No, nevermind. Too easy.
-Bill
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