Date: Sun, 19 Oct 1997 17:14:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris Timmons <skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu> To: Robin Cutshaw <robin@intercore.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, Peter Wemm <peter@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New de driver in 2.2.5-BETA Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971019163009.8934A-100000@opus.cts.cwu.edu> In-Reply-To: <19971019104510.16409@num1sun.intercore.com>
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link2 won't ever help you again - see de(4).
I am running DEC DE500-XA cards. I built the world and the kernel a
couple of hours ago, and adding "media 100baseTX" achieves the desired
result (ie in place of link2 in the ifconfig for that interface.)
One de driver difference between -current and 2.2.5-beta is that
-current's ifconfig always shows you the media options, while 2.2.5-beta
does so only if you say 'ifconfig -m', the documented behavior for both
-stable and -current.
I'm not sure if it is a feature or bug, but if your interface is
ifconfig'ed when there is no carrier present (eg. first machine up on a
crossover cable), ifconfig will tell you that there is no carrier even
after link is established:
2.2.5-beta> ifconfig de0
de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.9 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 192.168.1.15
ether 00:00:f8:01:10:ad
media: 100baseTX status: no carrier
current> ifconfig de0
de0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xfffffff8 broadcast 192.168.1.15
ether 00:00:f8:01:12:e8
media: 100baseTX status: no carrier
supported media: autoselect 100baseTX <full-duplex> 100baseTX
10baseT/UTP <full-duplex> 10baseT/UTP
Other than that the updated driver appears to work fine on the DE500,
-current and 2.2.5-beta
-Chris
On Sun, 19 Oct 1997, Robin Cutshaw wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 1997 at 09:32:17PM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > And, as things would have it, Peter has just committed a last minute
> > syncronization patch with Matt Thomas's latest to the de driver,
> > meaning that *anyone* with a DC21xxx based card should very definitely
> > install 2.2.5-971018-BETA from ftp.freebsd.org or one of its mirrors
> > as soon as possible and let us know if it *doesn't* work. If it does
> > work, great, you've nothing to worry about for 2.2.5. If it doesn't,
> > we need to know about it instantly! ;)
> >
>
> Still no joy. The de driver does not correctly detect 100 Mb/s mode
> and link2 doesn't change anything.
>
> robin
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