From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Oct 25 20:28:07 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A6DCA16A4CF for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:28:07 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71EA043D1D for ; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:28:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i9PKS6Ds037066; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i9PKS6Zq037065; Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 13:28:06 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: Daniel Engberg Message-ID: <20041025202806.GB36421@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <200410222206.i9MM6QV02983@d1o407.telia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200410222206.i9MM6QV02983@d1o407.telia.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet driver issues in 5.3RC1 / 5.3-STABLE X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 20:28:07 -0000 On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:06:26AM +0200, Daniel Engberg wrote: > Hi, > Currently I'm running 5.3-RC1 / 5.3-STABLE and it seems like this > version have issues with AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet NICs. The driver > (pcn) loads and detects the NIC properly without any errors but the > interface is unable to trasmit or receive any data. A workaround (not a > very nice one afaik), is to recompile the kernel and leave out the pcn > driver. By doing so FreeBSD will use the old lnc driver instead which > works. Any ideas what's causing this behaviour? > I'm using "FreeBSD BOX.BUNDLE 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Thu Oct > 21 17:55:29 CEST 2004". What is the dmesg output for this device? Several of my machines have pcn(4) devices: pcn0: with zero problems. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)