Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sun, 21 May 2000 14:52:09 -0700 (PDT)
From:      John Polstra <jdp@polstra.com>
To:        gallatin@cs.duke.edu
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Trouble with dc driver and DE500-BA card
Message-ID:  <200005212152.OAA94981@vashon.polstra.com>
In-Reply-To: <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
References:  <XFMail.000520135732.jdp@polstra.com> <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
In article <14631.13043.515193.76057@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>,
Andrew Gallatin  <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
>  > It didn't help.  (BTW, what is "the problem" referred to in that log
>  > message?)
> 
> The problem is a POLA violation -- every other alpha OS obeys the SRM
> settings by default.

Thanks for the info.

> With this patch, if you do:
> 
> >>> set ewa0_mode FastFD
> 
> The driver will choose 100baseTX <full-duplex> when ifconfig'ed with
> no args.  Without this patch, it attempts to autonegotiate.

OK.  Unfortunately that's not a good solution for me.  When I boot
Tru64, it seems to work much better when it autonegotiates than when I
try to lock it to FastFD with SRM.

> I've found that if I hardcode the switch port AND the adapter to
> 100baseTX <full-duplex>, everything works just dandy.

Too bad -- my switch isn't that fancy.

John
-- 
  John Polstra                                               jdp@polstra.com
  John D. Polstra & Co., Inc.                        Seattle, Washington USA
  "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence."  -- Chögyam Trungpa



To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200005212152.OAA94981>