Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 17:45:17 -0400 (EDT) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: adrian@virginia.edu, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DEC 21140-Ax problems resolved? Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.90.970418174147.20169E-100000@stretch.cs.Virginia.edu> In-Reply-To: <199704182123.OAA02842@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Terry Lambert wrote:
> > [ N.B. This ia an augmneted repost that drew ]
> > [ little response from freebsd-questions. ]
> >
> > I searched the mail archives and find no mention of the problem
> > with this chipset after mid-March. Has the problem with the de0 driver
> > been resolved?
> >
> > I get the same problems I found in many of the posts. The link
> > light is on for out 10Base-T hub, then it goes off after the kernel probes
> > and switches the device into 100Base-T mode.
> >
> > I have tried using the NetBSD driver as well as the -currrent
> > one. In both cases the kernel won't compile. In the -current case, I
> > think I may have missed a crucial file. The NetBSD may just be to far
> > out of synch.
>
> >From what I recollect, this isn't a driver problem, it's a link
> flag problem. Use 'man ifconfig' and modify your /etc/sysconfig
> appropriately to get the other link.
I tried -link{0,1,2} and none of them made a difference.
> If that fails, the NetBSD driver was recently announced as ported
> on the -current list (which is probably a better place to look,
> especially if the 'x' in your '-Ax' is recent, since your card
> may have overflow problems which need to be worked around in software).
Specifically the chip is a 21140-AC. That's not too new. Which
files do I need to get in addition to if_de.c? I tried this route, but I
must have mised something, because it wouldn't compile.
thanks,
Adrian
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