From owner-freebsd-current Fri Dec 24 11:56:21 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from chmls11.mediaone.net (chmls11.mediaone.net [24.128.1.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B4515116 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 11:56:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from veldy@visi.com) Received: from barley (h-182-88.mn.mediaone.net [209.32.182.88]) by chmls11.mediaone.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id OAA00508 for ; Fri, 24 Dec 1999 14:56:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <002601bf4e49$43fff410$0100a8c0@barley> From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "FreeBSD-Current" References: <001101bf4e45$5eb28150$0100a8c0@barley> Subject: Re: de0 (Asante 10baseT tulip) not working with PNP BIOS Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 13:58:35 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG To follow up to myself. I wanted to say that my reference to the mx drivers was using a different NIC. It was a Linksys 10/100 using PNIC II. Tom Veldhouse veldy@visi.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thomas T. Veldhouse" To: "FreeBSD-Current" Sent: Friday, December 24, 1999 1:30 PM Subject: de0 (Asante 10baseT tulip) not working with PNP BIOS > Hello, > > I have been trying to get my Asante (tulip) card to work under FreeBSD. > I used the same card on an older machine (PII-333), but had PNP shut off in > the BIOS. My new machine does not have the option to shut off PNP in the > BIOS (blame Compaq). The de0 device is found and the network is setup as > expected. However, it never works with "device down" messages when I > attempt to use it. I looked through a dmesg output and saw it say that the > BIOS had not activated the device. Well, if it (the kernel) sees that the > device is there and not activated, shouldn't it activate it? I reinstalled > Linux and it finds the card with a similar message and then activates the > card using the tulip driver. > > I have also noticed that the mx driver under FreeBSD 3.x activates the > card just fine. The above problem seem specific to the de driver. > > I would be happy to give dmesg output, but like I said, I attempted to > see what Linux did and I don't have access to the output anymore (until I > reinstall again). > > Tom Veldhouse > veldy@visi.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message