Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 17:16:40 +0100 From: "Tom Skoglund" <tomsk@chello.no> To: <freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.org> Cc: <tfischer@rain.fr> Subject: Re: NEWCARD and Xircom (RBEM56G-100) Message-ID: <004d01c1a297$02d10a20$0605800a@chello.no> References: <200201211512.QAA09346@omnibus.ffi.no>
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Hi, I of course forgot to mention that in the mail. I have been puzzled by this. MII bus is in the kernel, but I have never seen it activated. Am I missing some essential setting? I think I maybe will have a look at the Tulip cardbus driver in Linux and compare the cardbus register addresses/values. (I have seen there have been some issues with cards not beeing able to retrieve the correct CIS information. -Tom Tom Fischer <tfischer@rain.fr> wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > No, I have this same card running on a Toshiba Tecra 8100, > and it does indeed use the dc driver, and the ethernet part > of it does indeed work (I'm running Current, last updated yesterday). > > The dc driver needs the miibus device configured in the kernel in order > to work correctly, and it appears as if you haven't configured > your kernel with this device- your dmesg is showing: > > dc0: <Xircom X3201 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1000-0x107f mem 0x84000000-0x840000ff,0x84000100-0x8400017f irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 > dc0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 > dc0: MII without any PHY! > > while you should in fact be seeing something like: > > dc0: <Xircom X3201 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1000-0x107f mem 0x84002000-0x840020ff,0x84002100-0x8400217f irq 11 at device 0.0 on cardbus0 > dc0: Ethernet address: 2e:29:21:02:06:00 > miibus0: <MII bus> on dc0 > tdkphy0: <TDK 78Q2120 media interface> on miibus0 > tdkphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > > I haven't been able to get the modem part of this to work since > October. Warner had given us some hints on how to get this working > early last year, and it actually did work up until the 'sio' code > was broken out from isa and put under sys/dev/sio/. This hadn't > really been a problem until yesterday, as I had been using an > Alcatel usb ADSL modem with the pppoa port to connect to the internet, > but yesterday's cvsup (or most likely earlier- before yesterday, I last > upgraded on 11/20/01) broke that as well- now I have no way of > connecting :-( > > Warner, do you have any clues on how to get the modem half of this > card working again? > > best regards, > > tom > > tfischer@rain.fr > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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