From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Oct 13 11:47:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA14368 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:47:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from implode.root.com (implode.root.com [198.145.90.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA14362 for ; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:46:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from root@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id LAA17483; Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:46:28 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710131846.LAA17483@implode.root.com> To: John Polstra cc: Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de driver broken with SMC 8434BT In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 13 Oct 1997 10:06:38 PDT." <199710131706.KAA04981@austin.polstra.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 11:46:28 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >In article <199710130616.IAA00826@curry.mchp.siemens.de>, >Andre Albsmeier wrote: >> >> since the de0 in 2.2-STABLE now is the one from -current >> (don't know why), the SMC 8434BT doesn't work anymore, when >> using the BNC ports. >> >> I tried "ifconfig de0 media BNC" and "ifconfig de0 media AUI/BNC" >> but to no avail. Since de(4) days nothing about media types, I am >> helpless and went back to a one week older 2.2-STABLE version. > >You can get a list of the supported media types with "ifconfig -m >de0". BTW, I've been thinking about yanking the "-m" option and simply always outputting this information instead. I found myself spending way too much time trying to find "-m" (when I didn't know it existed and thus didn't know that I should be looking for it). Opinions? -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project