Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:00:42 -0400 From: W Gerald Hicks <wghicks@bellsouth.net> To: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk Cc: sean@dreamfire.net, stable@freebsd.org, wghicks@wghicks.bellsouth.net Subject: Re: AMD PCnet 10/100 PCI usability Message-ID: <199908192000.QAA11324@bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 19 Aug 1999 09:08:30 PDT." <19990819160830.3385015024@hub.freebsd.org>
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> >I have a PCnet 10/100 adapter built onto my motherboard (PC Server 325), > >and FreeBSD picks it up as "lnc1." The damned thing got 3-4k/sec > >transfers at the most. It appeared to not be negotiating with the hub > >correctly. > Yup, they can fail to autonegotiate. I've been having problems with an older Tulip board on a non-standard system. It first appeared to be an autonegotiation problem but on closer inspection it was revealed that my buggy PCI BIOS isn't DTRT and interrupts aren't getting set up properly. No interrupts, no autoselect... Good Luck, Jerry Hicks wghicks@bellsouth.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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