Date: Sun, 12 Jul 1998 06:44:02 -0500 (CDT) From: "Daniel M. Eischen" <deischen@iworks.interworks.org> To: msmith@revolution.3-cities.com Cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: D-Link enet card question Message-ID: <199807121144.GAA08631@iworks.interworks.org>
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> > > Well, I got the Adaptec/Cogent Ana 6911A based on the > > > DEC 21143-PA chip and it DOESN'T like it! It loads the > > > driver fine but tells me that the link is down/ cable problem. > > > Try forcing the media type with > > > ifconfig de0 media 10BaseT/UTP > > > > I have a lab of these cards (the 4-port versions) and the work fine, other > > than they get REAL annoyed if you pull the ethernet cable out. > > Nope, it doesn't work. I purchased a couple 6911A cards from www.onsale.com and I couldn't get them to work either. Same problems. I wrote it off to their being bad. This was under -current before the latest de driver was imported (just last week I believe). I sent them back and replaced them with D-LINK 500TX which are based on the 21140-AF chip. These worked fine. I couldn't see what chip were on the 6911 cards because Adaptec had placed a label over the chip. But if they were 21143-PAs, perhaps the de driver didn't know whow to deal with these properly. I wish I had kept one of those cards so I could try it out with the update de driver in -current. Hmm, perhaps you could download a boot/fixit disk from the daily snapshot server (ftp://current.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/) and use the fixit disk to try manually ifconfig'ing your interface to see if the new de driver will work with those cards. Dan Eischen deischen@iworks.InterWorks.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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