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Date:      Mon, 02 Oct 2000 19:44:03 -0400
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Adam <bsdx@looksharp.net>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_de driver woes
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.0.20001002194135.03828c80@mail.etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010021823470.23091-100000@turtle.looksharp. net>
References:  <5.0.0.25.0.20001002115302.02042ab0@mail.etinc.com>

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It might be useful if someone familiar with the driver answered, but there 
seems little  hope of that.

Maybe the guy that broke it...which would mean someone who modified it 
since 2.2.8 came out.

You know who you are....., but unfortunately the audit trail in the source 
is useless since there is none.

Dennis
At 06:28 PM 10/02/2000 -0400, you wrote:
>On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, Dennis wrote:
>
> >At 02:01 AM 10/01/2000 -0400, you wrote:
> >>On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Dennis wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> >The saga continues. the de driver in 4.1 now doesnt properly detect the
> >> >media of original SMC BNC cards. Upgrading an old system proved quite an
> >> >adventure.
> >> >
> >> >db
> >>
> >>You seem to have forgotten to attach dmesg, pciconf -l, the card model
> >>name, description, and symptoms... maybe your mailer ate them?
> >
> >
> >Oct  2 10:32:36 et-gw /kernel: de0: <Digital 21041 Ethernet> port 
> 0xf880-0xf8ff
> >mem 0xffbefe80-0xffbefeff irq 9 at device 17.0 on pci0
> >Oct  2 10:32:36 et-gw /kernel: de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1
> >Oct  2 10:32:36 et-gw /kernel: de0: address 00:00:c0:1a:49:d0
> >
> >I dont know the exact model, but the vendor ID is 1011 and the device IDs
> >are 0x0014 and 0x0002. The 0x0014 device sets up with 10baseT media (there
> >is only a coax BNC on the card, and the 0x0002 devices comes up with AUI
> >and 10baseT/UTP capabilty, but there is only a coax BNC on the card, so you
> >cant even set it to BNC manually.
>
>I'm not sure what and how 0x0014 and 0x0002 are used, but have you tried
>ifconfig de0 media 10base2/BNC ?
>
>Also what does ifconfig de0 report for the supported media types(if any)?
>My ed card supports tp and bnc but it doesnt report them in ifconfig, not
>sure what de does.
>
>
> >
> >These worked just fine under 2.2.8.
> >
> >DB
> >
> >
> >
> >
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