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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 23:55:31 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        khaled@mailbox.telia.net, freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: de driver problem
Message-ID:  <199905102155.XAA01002@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905102227570.447-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "May 10, 1999 10:28:49 pm"

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As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> On Sun, 9 May 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> > As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> > > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Khaled Daham wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Hello folks
> > > > 
> > > > I cvsupped,made world, built a kernel today and from now on the de
> > > 
> > > Some tulip boards in alpha systems don't autonegociate properly so the SRM
> > > has a way of forcing them to a particular mode. A change was made recently
> > 
> > Recently... I think it's been there for a couple of years.
> 
> Maybe you are remembering a NetBSD change?  We just started doing the same
> thing in FreeBSD recently.

Oops I was confusing things with another email about the messages
the driver spits out on dma not keeping up.

> > > to respect the SRM setting instead of using autoneg. The variable is
> > > typically called ewa0_mode. To find the right setting, type
> > > 
> > > 	>>>set ewa0_mode
> > > 
> > > from the SRM prompt and it will give you a list of settings. Choose one,
> > > then type e.g.:
> > > 
> > > 	>>>set ewa0_mode Twisted-Pair
> > 
> > Keep in mind that older SRMs that understand the older Tulip 10/100Mbit
> > chips  (21140 IRRC) might not recognise the new ones (is that the 21143?)
> > 
> > Bit me once..
> 
> Yeah. That must be why my 164lx won't netboot.

Could well be. My Aspen Alpine refused to with a DE500. A DE435 (10mbit
only) worked just dandy.

Groeten / Cheers,

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