From owner-freebsd-hardware Wed May 21 03:44:06 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id DAA03451 for hardware-outgoing; Wed, 21 May 1997 03:44:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.vis.net.uk [194.207.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA03446 for ; Wed, 21 May 1997 03:44:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bagpuss.visint.co.uk (bagpuss.vis.net.uk [194.207.134.1]) by bagpuss.visint.co.uk (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA00515; Wed, 21 May 1997 11:48:35 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 21 May 1997 11:48:35 +0100 (BST) From: Stephen Roome To: Wes Santee cc: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any luck with EE Pro/10? In-Reply-To: <199705201927.MAA06138@lister.bogon.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Firstly, this might not be of help in finding problems, more of a guide that others are still having problems. On Tue, 20 May 1997, Wes Santee wrote: > 'Lo all. Are there specific problems with the ex driver in 2.2 that I > should know about? I'm not sure about specific problems, but I've experienced some rather serious problems with the etherexpress cards as well under 3.0-970209-SNAP, and -current. I just didn't get round to reporting them yet as I thought I was just being stupid again. (often the case) I don't know which driver you are using but, I've been using ex, and I've not tried ie yet, but I'm under the impression that most EE's are 82597 based and that ie(4) drives only the 82586 (according to the man page). I've noticed the following: - unable to use UTP, works to some extent over BNC. - unable to multicast etc. (this is documented in source though) - need to ifconfig many times with different (+)/-link options many times before my EE works to any extent. - Almost consistent failure to detect which network port is being used, the driver always seems to say UTP, regardless of softset or cabling. I don't think any of these problems were due to incorrect setting from softset either, as I've not had problems detecting the card yet. Mainly the problems are with the driver just not working. I expect some other people are having the same problems as well, I didn't have time to mess about last time and just swapped in a DE21140. It's often faster and I beleive there are some known problems with the EE Pro10 not actually being able to multicast properly due to it not being a very good card. (I'd normally phrase that differently!) -- Steve Roome Technical Systems Manager, Vision Interactive Ltd. E: steve@visint.co.uk M: +44 (0) 976 241 342 T: +44 (0) 117 973 0597 F: +44 (0) 117 923 8522