Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:01:56 -0600 From: "Bob Giesen" <BobGiesen@earthlink.net> To: "Jamaal Sanford" <jamaal@sanfordonline.org>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Linksys LNE10TX v4.1, FreeBSD v3.2 Message-ID: <000d01c1a301$eb65d9e0$328dfea9@pegasus> References: <DIEBKPBCFPNEBDJLDFLLCEBCCDAA.jamaal@sanfordonline.org>
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Yipeee..... oh, shoot. Well, there's definitely some progress: using the AMDtek driver code (if_al.c and if_alreg.h) got the kernel to recognize the card. I suspect there's a problem with it detecting the ethernet address, though -- unless I've got the one card with all the bits set (which probably runs counter to some standard, anyway :-) ). Here's my ifconfig -a output: al0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 inet 192.168.0.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff media: 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX <half-duplex> 100baseTX 10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP 10baseT/UTP <half-duplex> dmesg, of course, shows the same ethernet address. I am able to to ping the localhost, successfully. When I try to ping another machine (hostname "secretariat"), I can watch the activity LED on my hub flash, but all the packets get lost. Interestingly, this causes secretariat to show the following problem message on its console: [current date & time] secretariat /kernel: arp: ether address is broadcast for IP address 192.168.0.1! The actual date and time are shown (sans the brackets), as is the exclamation mark. For now, I'll search for references to this problem and/or an update to the al driver. If anyone has any more suggestions, I'll appreciate hearing them. Thanks, again, Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jamaal Sanford" <jamaal@sanfordonline.org> To: "Bob Giesen" <BobGiesen@earthlink.net> Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 8:11 PM Subject: RE: Linksys LNE10TX v4.1, FreeBSD v3.2 > I've been using the LNE100TX series since FreeBSD v4.3. The > drivers for FreeBSD were included on the driver disk that shipped with the > product. However, I used the "dc" driver and it works fine. The 3.x of > FreeBSD uses the ADMtek drivers I think. Here's something you may find > interesting from the readme file included on the disk. > > > A. Get source Code and produce a binary code > ============================================= > Step 1 : Get the source code(if_al.c and if_alreg.h) from the following site > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/ADMtek/3.0 > > Step 2 : Build compiler environment on your FreeBSD system. > > Step 3 : Compile source code to produce a binary code. > > > ** Note ** > It will work with either FreeBSD 3.2 or 3.3. If you have 3.3-RELEASE, > replace /sys/pci/if_al.c and /sys/pci/if_alreg.h with the new versions > from the web site, then just compile a new kernel. > > For FreeBSD-current, the driver is already there: you can install a > -current snapshot from: > > ftp://current.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/i386/4.0-19991012-CURRENT > > Jamaal Sanford > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bob Giesen > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2002 5:10 PM > To: freebsd-questions > Cc: Bob Giesen (earthlink) > Subject: Linksys LNE10TX v4.1, FreeBSD v3.2 > > > > I have an LNE100TX v4.1 card and FreeBSD v3.2 -- which I'm hoping to get > to work together. I tried the pn kernel driver (in response to a tip in the > kernel config file), to no avail. > In search of an answer (via Google), I found a page > (http://www.linksys.com/faqs/default.asp?fqid=27) which recommended trying > the DEC (de) kernel driver or else the pn code (if_pn.c & if_pnreg.h) > supplied via that page. I tried both (separately and together), to no > avail. When I boot, it seems that the PCI probe isn't even finding the NIC; > there's no line in the dmesg output that refers to pn0, de0... or anything > else that even remotely looks like it might be the NIC. > Just in case it was a case of a persnickety probe, I changed the > positions of my NIC and the only other PCI card I have installed (Creative > SB PCI 512 sound card), moving the NIC to the first slot (next to the AGP > slot, where the sound card used to live), also to no avail. (FYI, the AGP > slot houses the video card and my only ISA slot holds the modem.) > I've done some searching in the archives, here, looking for an answer, > but couldn't find one. Now, I wonder (1) if my card will work with FreeBSD > v3.2 and, if so, (2) where can I find the driver code to make it possible? > Any help that you can provide will be much appreciated -- since it might > save me much, much time in upgrading my FreeBSD -- or the cost of another, > supported card. Thanks in advance. > - Bob > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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