From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 11 7:19:31 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55CAD14F2C; Tue, 11 May 1999 07:19:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id PAA26575; Tue, 11 May 1999 15:54:08 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id XAA01002; Mon, 10 May 1999 23:55:31 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199905102155.XAA01002@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: de driver problem In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "May 10, 1999 10:28:49 pm" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 23:55:31 +0200 (CEST) Cc: khaled@mailbox.telia.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Doug Rabson wrote ... > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > As Doug Rabson wrote ... > > > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Khaled Daham wrote: > > > > > > > Hello folks > > > > > > > > I cvsupped,made world, built a kernel today and from now on the de > > > > > > Some tulip boards in alpha systems don't autonegociate properly so the SRM > > > has a way of forcing them to a particular mode. A change was made recently > > > > Recently... I think it's been there for a couple of years. > > Maybe you are remembering a NetBSD change? We just started doing the same > thing in FreeBSD recently. Oops I was confusing things with another email about the messages the driver spits out on dma not keeping up. > > > to respect the SRM setting instead of using autoneg. The variable is > > > typically called ewa0_mode. To find the right setting, type > > > > > > >>>set ewa0_mode > > > > > > from the SRM prompt and it will give you a list of settings. Choose one, > > > then type e.g.: > > > > > > >>>set ewa0_mode Twisted-Pair > > > > Keep in mind that older SRMs that understand the older Tulip 10/100Mbit > > chips (21140 IRRC) might not recognise the new ones (is that the 21143?) > > > > Bit me once.. > > Yeah. That must be why my 164lx won't netboot. Could well be. My Aspen Alpine refused to with a DE500. A DE435 (10mbit only) worked just dandy. Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message