Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:19:28 -0800 (PST) From: Mike Holling <myke@ees.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: EtherExpress16 and if_ie.c Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9901102246570.388-100000@phluffy.fks.bt>
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Not sure if this is the correct forum, maybe it should go to -hackers. Redirects appreciated. I have a number of EtherExpress16 ISA cards, none of which seemed to work in FreeBSD. After soliciting for experiences with this card on -questions, I started digging into the driver a bit. On my system (P90 running -current) it appears as if the card doesn't generate receive interrupts. Transmits seem to be fine. ieinit() can sometimes bring the receive interrupts to life (by a series of 'ifconfig down; ifconfig up' or sometimes changing promisc mode by running tcpdump). There doesn't seem to be a reliable pattern to this, however. Once the card starts working it stays working, at least until the next reboot. Is anyone still working on this driver? Does anyone have online documentation for the i82586 chip, or a pointer to past discussions about the problems with this card? The code indicates that there's a lot of mystery bugs, and it looks like some of them are still there. Oh, the driver also hangs the machine at reboot time. After the disks sync, the machine hangs with the message ie1: frame from ether ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff type ffff repeating indefinitely. - Mike To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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