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Date:      Sat, 05 May 2001 01:30:56 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        mikehan@mikehan.com (Michael Han)
Cc:        hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Intel 82562 fxp problem
Message-ID:  <iu37ft8au7q791emdn5i1dsatndocuu064@4ax.com>
In-Reply-To: <SEN.989012179.183664851@news.sentex.net>
References:  <20010504140519.A33085@giles.mikehan.com> <20010504142126.U19393@nexus.root.com> <SEN.989012179.183664851@news.sentex.net>

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On 4 May 2001 17:36:19 -0400, in sentex.lists.freebsd.hardware you wrote:

>On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 02:21:26PM -0700, David Greenman wrote:
>>=20
>>    I haven't done any testing with the 82562 and can't say whether it =
is
>> compatible with the fxp driver. Is there any chance that you can plug =
a
>> real Pro/100+ card into the machine and see if it exhibits the same =
problem?
>> This would narrow down the problem to either a problem with the =
motherboard
>> chipset or to the support of the 82562 in the fxp driver.
>
>Uh oh. A real 82257 is a no-go. It's a 1U slimline, and my friend with
>physical access to the box informs me that trying to use the one open
>PCI riser is a problem in this chassis for some reason. He did,
>however, try out the SMC 9332DST 21140 [10-100Mb/s] de(4) I gave him,
>and the card appeared quite stable. Apparently he can't close the
>enclosure with the card in it though... Otherwise we'd be happy to
>talk to de0 instead!
>
>Anything else I can try out? Unfortunately, the box is out in NYC and
>I'm here in SF, and it's in a colo my friend rarely visits, so
>arranging various diagnostics is a bit complicated. Still, I'm happy
>to try to do whatever I can.

Perhaps the patch at

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D18757

It might not be your issue, but you may want to try it.

	---Mike
Mike Tancsa  (mdtancsa@sentex.net)	=09
Sentex Communications Corp,   	=09
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"Given enough time, 100 monkeys on 100 routers=20
could setup a national IP network." (KDW2)

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