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Date:      Wed, 7 Oct 1998 15:23:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Cc:        Rich Fox <rich@f2sys.net>, freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Intel Pro/100B, unsupported type = 63, can't see network 
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.981007151952.24389H-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810071529.IAA13269@implode.root.com>

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> >If I do an ifconfig -a I get:
> >fxp0 flags=8843<UP, BROADCAST, RUNNING, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >	inet 192.168.1.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
> >	ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> >	media: manual
> >	supported media: manual
> 
>    Yikes. Are you sure that is a Pro/100B card? It seems to have totally
> failed to properly read the SRAM, including the ethernet MAC address. The
> card WILL NOT WORK in this case, so don't waste anymore time trying to
> test it. I wonder if the SRAM chip on the board might be different than the
> standard chip, or if perhaps the chip is actually defective? I'll need more
> info (like chip numbers, age of board, dmesg output, type of system this is
> being put into, etc.) before I can make any further guesses.

I happen to be an expert at this particular bug...  the serial eeprom has
failed or is in some way not readable by the ethernet chip I have one here
that did the same...  I replaced the eeprom and it was fine.. 

We have two of these on a card we have here and before I got the eeproms
programmed we could probe the card suggessfully but we'd get these
symptoms (all 1 values read during the probe) 


julian



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