From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 1 14:47:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42C2C14D9D for ; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:47:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id OAA13614; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:46:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id OAA25217; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 14:37:51 -0700 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id PAA22250; Wed, 1 Sep 1999 15:46:41 -0600 Message-ID: <37CD9EC0.D67C7F5B@softweyr.com> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 1999 15:46:40 -0600 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "David E. Cross" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Tulip device driver question References: <199909010534.BAA25548@cs.rpi.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "David E. Cross" wrote: > > I am modifying the tulip device driver to support this xircom card. I have it > almost entirely working, *except* that it goes into infinite re-neogitiate > loops. The card probes correctly at bootup, but any attempt to change > information via ifconfig ("ifconfig de0 inet ..." and "ifconfig de0 up", > and "ifconfig de0 media 10baseTX" will all do it) results in it probing, > then resetting, then probing again. over and over in an infinite loop. > Ideas? Is this a real tulip, or one of the recent clones? Bill Paul has written a number of drivers for various near clones of the Tulip, none of which work quite like the Tulip (of course). See, for instance, the al, ax, mx, pn, vr, and wb drivers. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://softweyr.com/ wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message