Date: Sun, 6 Dec 1998 19:46:45 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: andree@bumlan.campus.luth.se (Andree Jacobson) Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Test request, SMC 1211TX EtherEZ PCI card Message-ID: <199812070046.TAA18136@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812062214150.19283-100000@bumlan.campus.luth.se> from "Andree Jacobson" at Dec 6, 98 10:21:08 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Andree Jacobson had to walk into mine and say: > On Sun, 6 Dec 1998, Bill Paul wrote: > > > Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Andree Jacobso= > n=20 > > had to walk into mine and say: > > > Go to current.freebsd.org:/pub/FreeBSD and get the latest 3.0-SNAP > > boot floppy (from Nov. 23rd, I think). That floppy should have the > > driver in it. > > Yep, it worked! Well, it almost worked. > dmesg was: > > rl0: <Accton MPx 5030/5038 10/100BaseTX> rev 0x10 int a irq 9 on pci0.11.= > 0 > rl0: Ethernet address: <my address> > rl0: unknown device ID: 1211 This means I forgot to do something in rl_attach() to properly handle the alternate vendor/device ID for the Accton MPX chips. I think these are just rebadged 8139s. I just now committed a fix to -current to deal with this. > of course I could not try to configure ftp options but it might work. It won't: the 'unknown device ID' error is a fatal error: the device was not attached. However, next time a -current snapshot comes out, it should work (or you could make a custom kernel). Thanks very much for testing this for me though: it's just the sort of information I was looking for. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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