Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:55:45 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.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: <199810072255.PAA18171@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 07 Oct 1998 15:23:57 PDT." <Pine.BSF.3.95.981007151952.24389H-100000@current1.whistle.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) I said SRAM above, but I meant serial EEPROM. Apologies. In any case, Rich wrote back that the problem was resolved by replacing the board. -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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