From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Aug 21 3:10:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fdy2.demon.co.uk (fdy2.demon.co.uk [194.222.102.143]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A9614EBE for ; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 03:10:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk) Received: (from rjs@localhost) by fdy2.demon.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA00636; Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:13:31 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from rjs) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 23:13:31 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199908192213.XAA00636@fdy2.demon.co.uk> From: Robert Swindells To: wghicks@bellsouth.net Cc: sean@dreamfire.net, stable@freebsd.org In-reply-to: <199908192000.QAA11324@bellsouth.net> (message from W Gerald Hicks on Thu, 19 Aug 1999 16:00:42 -0400) Subject: Re: AMD PCnet 10/100 PCI usability Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >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... It is a known problem with the AMD chips, it can even happen using their reference boards. Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message