Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 22:00:23 -0400 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: "David W . Chapman Jr ." <dwcjr@inethouston.net> Cc: Mats Dufberg <dufberg@nic-se.se>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any patch for fxp driver? Message-ID: <200106060200.f5620Nn34965@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 05 Jun 2001 20:56:41 CDT." <20010605205641.A2897@leviathan.inethouston.net> References: <Pine.BSF.4.30.0106052105110.20223-100000@spider.nic-se.se> <20010605142209.C15350@leviathan.inethouston.net> <200106060148.f561mFn25570@whizzo.transsys.com> <20010605205641.A2897@leviathan.inethouston.net>
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> > Another "failure" mode that I noticed with the new fxp driver is that > > sometimes auto-negotiation doesn't work. I fixed my problem by > > explicitly configuring the media type and mediaopts in rc.conf and > > all is happy (for me, anyway) again. > > > > This was with a fairly bizzare-o Motorola Pentium CompactPCI single > > board computer with an fxp intergrated LAN controller. > > > > > I've heard reports of that, but do you have PNPOS enabled in your > BIOS? > This system was previously running FreeBSD and the problem was noticed after doing the upgrade to FreeBSD-stable with the new PHY code. I haven't looked at the BIOS configuration for quite some time now, and can't say for certain; but it's likely that PNP OS? is set to NO so that the BIOS assigns resources to the peripherals. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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