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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 1997 20:14:49 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com>
To: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
cc: John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>, Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de,
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Subject: Re: de driver broken with SMC 8434BT 
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On Mon, 13 Oct 1997, David Greenman wrote:

> >In article <199710130616.IAA00826@curry.mchp.siemens.de>,
> >Andre Albsmeier  <Andre.Albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de> 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?
When did you have in mind to output this?  Always, when ifconfig'ing a
device that has multiple media, only when changing the media type...?  I
can see this being really useful in some situations, but pretty cumbersome
in others.

> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
> 

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