Date: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 18:16:59 -0500 (EST) From: Mikhail Teterin <mi@corbulon.video-collage.com> To: xfb52@dial.pipex.com (Alex Zbyslaw) Cc: hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: skc0: unknown media type: 0x0 Message-ID: <200511042316.jA4NGxgR087195@corbulon.video-collage.com> In-Reply-To: <436A9CD1.60409@dial.pipex.com>
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> From the source code, the driver is trying to read the media type > setting from the eeprom and failing to get anything it understands. > This looks like only the second bit of info that is looked at from the > eeprom, and the first bit wouldn't give an error if it too was returning > 0x0. This is just my quick reading of the code, though! I would > definitely be starting to think that adding the memory triggered a > hardware problem, perhaps static, or something physical. I am very afraid of that :-( The motherboard was not cheap (although refurbished) and replacing it is a pain even if it were free. > Presumably you don't have another OS installed on the machine (<dread > look> Windows or Linux) because if it too couldn't see the ethernet that > would be a strong indicator of hardware problems. I'm going to try installing something else. I need to check a slow-writing harddrive too. Thanks, -mi
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