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To: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
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Subject: Re: SMC EtherPower 10/100 (SMC9332BDT) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Dec 1996 20:09:35 EST."
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 19:38:20 -0800
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>The yellow "READ ME FIRST" document that came with the cards has this to
>say:
>
>"This EtherPower 10/100 network card requires the latest SMC network
>drivers because of its higher performance and added feature content. It
>will not operate with drivers provided with older EtherPower 10/100
>network cards."
>
>Uh oh. I assume the de driver is designed for these "older" cards? I
>checked the CVS logs and did not see anything relevant to this.

   "Yup".

>Anybody have any magic tips? Thanks.

   Apply the following patch and add options "DE_HACK" into your kernel config
file. Let me know if it works.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

Index: if_de.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/pci/if_de.c,v
retrieving revision 1.54.2.1
diff -c -r1.54.2.1 if_de.c
*** if_de.c	1996/11/12 09:09:59	1.54.2.1
--- if_de.c	1996/11/16 14:06:37
***************
*** 309,314 ****
--- 309,315 ----
      TULIP_DC21040_GENERIC,		/* Generic DC21040 (works with most any board) */
      TULIP_DC21040_ZX314_MASTER,		/* ZNYX ZX314 Master 21040 (it has the interrupt line) */
      TULIP_DC21040_ZX314_SLAVE,		/* ZNYX ZX314 Slave 21040 (its interrupt is tied to the master's */
+     TULIP_DC21140_GENERIC,		/* Generic DC21140 */
      TULIP_DC21140_DEC_EB,		/* Digital Semicondutor 21140 Evaluation Board */
      TULIP_DC21140_DEC_DE500,		/* Digital DE500-?? 10/100 */
      TULIP_DC21140_SMC_9332,		/* SMC 9332 */
***************
*** 1791,1797 ****
--- 1792,1807 ----
      tulip_dc21140_mii_media_preset,
      tulip_dc21140_mii_probe,
  };
+ 
+ static const tulip_boardsw_t tulip_dc21140_generic_boardsw = {
+     TULIP_DC21140_GENERIC, "",
+     tulip_dc21140_de500aa_media_probe,		/* XXX Hack alert!!! */
+     tulip_dc21140_de500aa_media_select,		/* XXX */
+     tulip_dc21140_mii_media_preset,
+     tulip_dc21140_mii_probe,
+ };
  
+ 
  static int
  tulip_dc21041_media_probe(
      tulip_softc_t * const sc)
***************
*** 3094,3107 ****
  		copy_name = 1;
  	    } else if (bcmp(sc->tulip_rombuf + 29, "DE450", 5) == 0) {
  		copy_name = 1;
  	    }
  	    if (copy_name) {
  		bcopy(sc->tulip_rombuf + 29, sc->tulip_boardidbuf, 8);
  		sc->tulip_boardidbuf[8] = ' ';
  		sc->tulip_boardid = sc->tulip_boardidbuf;
  	    }
- 	    if (sc->tulip_boardsw == NULL)
- 		return -6;
  	    goto check_oui;
  	}
      }
--- 3104,3119 ----
  		copy_name = 1;
  	    } else if (bcmp(sc->tulip_rombuf + 29, "DE450", 5) == 0) {
  		copy_name = 1;
+ 	    } else {
+ #ifdef DE_HACK
+ 	        sc->tulip_boardsw = &tulip_dc21140_generic_boardsw;
+ #endif
  	    }
  	    if (copy_name) {
  		bcopy(sc->tulip_rombuf + 29, sc->tulip_boardidbuf, 8);
  		sc->tulip_boardidbuf[8] = ' ';
  		sc->tulip_boardid = sc->tulip_boardidbuf;
  	    }
  	    goto check_oui;
  	}
      }