Date: Tue, 20 Aug 1996 17:07:42 -0400 From: Tommy Johnson <tjohnson@csgrad.cs.vt.edu> To: dennis@etinc.com, huck@mispwoso.nosc.mil Cc: hackers@freebsd.org, matt@lkg.dec.com Subject: Re: de driver bug? Message-ID: <9608202107.AA06170@csgrad.cs.vt.edu>
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>> that it is having connection problems. Unless you have a flakey network >> it could be a flakey card. > >Ok...this is the scoop. > >I have a '486 PCI MB (ACER) with a genuine SMC ethernet card. The >identical hardware (tested by swapping out hard disks).... My scoop: PCI SMC Etherpower 10baseT/10base2 ethernet card, on a dual 586-100 (labeled "pentium" though). > >1) Works in FreeBSD 2.1.0R >2) Works in Linux 2.0.0 >3) Doesnt work in FreeBSD 2.1.5R. The installation boot procedure (NFS) >fails,and a system built on another machine finds but cannot use the de card. Exact same thing: worked with FreeBSD 2.1 Release, FreeBSD 2.2-current (end of July) broke it. My Fix: I use 10base2, and it never said "de0: enabling Thinwire/BNC port" after I installed FreeBSD-current. So I figured the media probe failed, and added /* Added by TOJ, to attempt to force 10base2 */ sc->tulip_media=TULIP_MEDIA_BNC; /* End TOJ */ at line 1842 of /usr/src/sys/pci/if_de.c Its worked ever since. > >I think that the problem is that I dont get any interrupts. I got an "abnormal" >interrupt a few times...but now I am not. > >Whats changed in 2.1.5? is it the de driver, or the PCI stuff? -Tom "Well, laugh." -Jared tjohnson@csgrad.cs.vt.edu "My other computer ALSO runs unix." -me <*> http://csgrad.cs.vt.edu/~tjohnson/ Message and signature (c) 1996 Tommy O. Johnson, all rights reserved
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