Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 21:53:44 +0100 From: Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd@orchid.homeunix.org> To: FreeBSD questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC Message-ID: <454A5AD8.1090600@orchid.homeunix.org>
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Hi all,
anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI)
working with 10base2/BNC?
I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and
should be supported according to man xl page.
With ifconfig_xl0=3D"DHCP" in /etc/rc.conf and BNC cable connected (with
terminator) ifconfig reports:
xl0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
options=3D9<RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU>
inet6 fe80::204:76ff:feed:6697%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
ether 00:04:76:ed:66:97
media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
status: no carrier
dhclient reports "xl0: no link..... giving up"
Now, if I manually try to switch to BNC media with:
# ifconfig xl0 media 10base2/BNC
I get:
# xl0: selecting AUI media, half-duplex
and a kernel panic (trap 12).
The BNC cable itself works with another box. More information below.
Any help appreciated.
Karol
uname:
FreeBSD 6.1-SECURITY #0: Mon Aug 28 05:21:08 UTC 2006
root@builder.daemonology.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
verbose dmesg:
xl0: <3Com 3c905B-COMBO Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xec00-0xec7f mem
0xfebffc00-0xfebffc7f irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0
xl0: Reserved 0x80 bytes for rid 0x14 type 3 at 0xfebffc00
xl0: using memory mapped I/O
xl0: media options word: 3a
xl0: found MII/AUTO
miibus0: <MII bus> on xl0
xlphy0: <3Com internal media interface> on miibus0
xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
xl0: found AUI
xl0: found BNC
xl0: bpf attached
xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:76:ed:66:97
xl0: [MPSAFE]
vmstat -i:
interrupt total rate
irq0: clk 561773 997
irq1: atkbd0 257 0
irq5: rl0 48 0
irq6: fdc0 11 0
irq8: rtc 71886 127
irq10: xl0 3 0
irq14: ata0 2139 3
irq15: ata1 47 0
Total 636164 1129
--=20
Karol Kwiatkowski <freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org>
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