Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 09:04:30 -0700 From: Donald Acton <acton@opentext.com> To: RaTd0g <wself@baic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMC 9332BDT 10/100 Ethernet card Message-ID: <199708121604.JAA29651@taghum.vn.opentext.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 11 Aug 1997 16:01:12 -0000." <Pine.BSF.3.96.970811155650.17520A-100000@baic.com>
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> > Has anyone had positive results using the newer 9332 from SMC? > > I have had trouble due to different changes made in the card. Linux and > Win95 both required updated drivers. > > Under FreeBSD, the card lights are active until FreeBSD detects the card, > at which point the lights turn off, and the card goes dead. ifconfig > still shows the card as active with an ip address. "ifconfig de0 down" > does not remove this information, and the card continues to showup as > acitve, although the lights on the back of the card are all off. > > Any ideas? This sounds very familiar to the problem I was having with the 9332BDT. So here is what I did to get FreeBSD 2.2.2 running using that card. For references purposes, here is what the boot sequence reports about my card. Jul 25 16:40:52 tofino /kernel: de0: enabling 10baseT port Jul 29 08:26:05 tofino /kernel: de0 <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> rev 34 int a irq 11 on pci0:10 Jul 29 08:26:05 tofino /kernel: de0: SMC 9332BDT 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.2 Jul 29 08:26:05 tofino /kernel: de0: address 00:e0:29:06:3c:d2 Jul 29 08:26:05 tofino /kernel: de0: media: 1="10baseT" 2="Full Duplex 10baseT" 3="100baseTX" 4="Full Duplex 100baseTX" I was having the following sorts of problems: - Card would always come up in 100baseT mode even though on a 10base-T network - On occassion could do a sequence of ifconfigs to get it into 10base-T mode but transfer rate was poor and driver would often report a failure and not come back to life - This was all under 2.2.2-Release with the generic kernel I went to 3am Software's home page http://www.3am-software.com/ and checked out the tips there. I also got the new de drivers from that page and installed them. (These drivers are newer than the ones in 2.2.2-release, but you should verify that is the case with the version of FreeBSD you are using.) The final step to really get things going was to recompile the kernel with NMBCLUSTERS set to 4096 with the following line in my kernel configuration file. options NMBCLUSTERS=4096 With the above changes I was able to get files transfer rates on 200MB files in excess of 900Kbytes/second. We did, however, discover one problem card that wouldn't work even after all the changes were made, although that card seems to work fine under Windows NT 4.0. Most of these tips came from Matt Thomas at 3am Software. Hope this helps and I'd be interested in hearing how you make out. Donald Acton acton@opentext.com
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