From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 25 02:39:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA04202 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:39:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from opi.flirtbox.ch ([62.48.0.50]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id CAA04195 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 1998 02:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oppermann@pipeline.ch) Received: (qmail 10327 invoked from network); 25 Sep 1998 09:38:07 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO pipeline.ch) (195.134.140.6) by opi.flirtbox.ch with SMTP; 25 Sep 1998 09:38:07 -0000 Message-ID: <360B64E7.305EB1BD@pipeline.ch> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:39:51 +0200 From: Andre Oppermann Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Avalon Books CC: Dennis , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is the de driver dead? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Avalon Books wrote: > On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Dennis wrote: -snip- > > The card you site is not a 21040 nor a -AC or later, so how is this relevant? > > > > The first problem is that there is seemingly no way to get the 10/100 cards > > to work on a 10mb/s network as they "autosense" wrong and when set > > manually do not work with the DE driver. > > > > db > > > > Considering the 21041A is a 21040 with a few minor firmware revisions I > think it might be relevent. It seems the de driver itself has been > essentially unchanged in quite a while, and I think it might of a value to > determine why the supposed problems with the de driver manifest themselves > the way they do. And those of us in the hardware business find > multi-platform and third party testing to be extremely useful for locating > both software and hardware flaws. For all we know, the chip isn't at > fault--maybe its a bus interfacing problem, or an interface compliance > problem, or who knows what else... I've also had problems at the 2.2.6 times with Accton 10/100 cards with DECchip. It wasn't autodetecting and I couldn't get it to actually connect to the hub. Win95 worked fine. I don't remeber the exact type (I think it was 21041A) but I can probably dig such a card up and test it if that helps to solve the problem. Bill, are you interested in yet another driver to hack?. PS: We are an Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B exclusive shop now :) -- Andre To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message