From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 1 22:53:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (deepthought.blinkenlights.nl [62.58.162.228]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82D3837B416; Wed, 1 May 2002 22:53:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix, from userid 500) id 86954AB; Thu, 2 May 2002 07:53:04 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by deepthought.blinkenlights.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C4B6C118; Thu, 2 May 2002 07:53:04 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 07:53:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Sten To: Glendon Gross Cc: Guido Kollerie , Danny Braniss , , Subject: Re: 3Com 3c905C-TX In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 1 May 2002, Glendon Gross wrote: > > Out of curiosity, do only 3c509's exibit this behavior, or is this > the core problem with 3c59x's as well? My experiences have not > been consistent with these cards, and I had assumed it was due > to buggy code in the 3-Com chipset. I've noticed flaky behavior from the > "Vortex" [3c59x] card as well. I would assume is the chipset, because just out of the blue redoing negotiation doesnt seem like something that a sane driver would do. The most probable thing is that the card interprets normal traffic erronously as negotiation signals. > Just now I have been wrestling with an ISA 3c509 which has > a Lucent 40-01304 chip on it. At first the card was detected, and > later not detected [on a different OS.] I vote for the fxp's as > well, I've had hardly any problems with them. > > Is there a way to lock down the card by hacking the driver, so it won't > try to auto-negotiate the connection? Like I said forcing it ( with the dos config tool ) helps, and solves the problems in most cases. But it's pretty workable when you force both sides. -- Sten Spans "What does one do with ones money, when there is no more empty rackspace ?" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message