Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 23:59:43 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.demon.nl> To: Matthias Schuendehuette <msch@snafu.de> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 'xl'+DP83840 broken? Message-ID: <20010530235943.A1665@freebie.demon.nl> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010530222524.msch@snafu.de>; from msch@snafu.de on Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:25:24PM %2B0200 References: <XFMail.010530222524.msch@snafu.de>
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On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 10:25:24PM +0200, Matthias Schuendehuette wrote: I guess see PR kern/27722 on www.freebsd.org Try the fix I present in that PR to see if it fixes your problem as well. Wilko [who feels the change to miibus should be backed out..] > Hello everybody! > > I have some problems with -STABLE since approx. May 15th with the 'xl' > driver. It concerns the old 3Com 3C905 (without B or C) with the > following (d)messages: > > xl0: <3Com 3c905-TX Fast Etherlink XL> port 0xe000-0xe03f irq 9 at device > 12.0 on pci0 > nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 > > The problem is: If I configure the NIC fixed with 100Mbit/full-duplex, > i.e. 'ifconfig xl0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex', the NIC becomes > inoperable and a pure 'ifconfig xl0' reports: > ... > media: 100baseTX <full-duplex> status: no carrier > ... > and the activity-LED isn't flashing any more. This happens regardeless of > the switch configuration. It doesn't matter if the switch is fixed with > 100Mbit/full-duplex or is 'auto'. > > The NIC *does* work with 'media auto', but reports only '100baseTX' on a > fixed (full-duplex) configured switch. > It reports '100baseTX <full-duplex>' on a switch which is also configured > for autonegotiation. > > I could *not* reproduce that behaviour on the same equipment with a > 3C905*C* - with that NIC, all works fine (as usual with FreeBSD ;-). > > IIRC 4.3-STABLE around/shortly after the -RELEASE date hadn't these > problems. > > Any ideas? -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands email: wilko@freebsd.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte Powered by FreeBSD/alpha http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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