Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:45:49 +0100 From: Scott Mitchell <scott.mitchell@mail.com> To: dochawk@psu.edu Cc: "Jose M. Alcaide" <jose@we.lc.ehu.es>, Jamie Bowden <ragnar@sysabend.org>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: xe0 and ifconfig Message-ID: <20010902184549.H379@localhost> In-Reply-To: <200108202152.f7KLqP205640@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from dochawk@psu.edu on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:25PM -0400 References: <3B7905DD.A9F935B7@we.lc.ehu.es> <200108202152.f7KLqP205640@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 05:52:25PM -0400, dochawk@psu.edu wrote: > >I am who reported that similar problem. The other "OS" ;-) is WinMe. > >The odd thing here is that we have two Xircom RE-100 (CE3-10/100) > >cards with different behavior: the old card (~18 months old) works fine > >under both Windows (Xircom driver version 2.05) and FreeBSD; however, the > >new card suffers from negotiation problems under FreeBSD (even when rebooted > >after Windows). > > I have seen similar problems with the etherexpress that comes with the > thinkpad a21p. > > As near as I can tell, the card is not reset properly on a soft > reboot. Linux after freebsd causes the kernel to hang, hard. FreeBSD > after win98 tends to either have problems or fail to configure the > card. My solution has been to remove both ac and battery to force it > to fully reset . . . Based on this and some other conversations I've had, it's starting to look like there's something subtly but seriously screwed in the way the xe driver initialises the card -- whether it's actually doing anything *wrong* or just failing to clean up the cruft left by the Windows driver is debatable, but a moot point really, as it doesn't work either way. I hope to be able to devote some time to this (finally) over the next couple of months. There's a couple of other people looking at it as well. I'll keep all you guys (and the list) up to date with any progress. Scott -- =========================================================================== Scott Mitchell | PGP Key ID | "Eagles may soar, but weasels Cambridge, England | 0x54B171B9 | don't get sucked into jet engines" scott.mitchell@mail.com | 0xAA775B8B | -- Anon To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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