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Date:      Wed, 12 Mar 2003 15:33:52 -0500
From:      Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>
To:        Marian Dobre <mari@onix.ro>
Cc:        freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Sparc64 and standard PCI devices
Message-ID:  <20030312153352.C50948@locore.ca>
In-Reply-To: <3E6F9524.30801@onix.ro>; from mari@onix.ro on Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:14:28PM %2B0200
References:  <3E6F9524.30801@onix.ro>

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Apparently, On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 10:14:28PM +0200,
	Marian Dobre said words to the effect of;

> Hello,
> 
> I've installed FreeBSD 5.0 Sparc64  on a E450 and I'm trying to use 
> standard PCI ethernet cards.
> According to 
> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/sparc64/support.html#ETHERNET 
> these cards are supposed to be supported but I can't get them to work.
> I've tried  RTL8139 card with the if_rl driver and 3COM905 card with 
> if_xl driver. The cards are detected by the software but they dont send 
> or receive any packet. I even recompiled all the software on the box and 
> the kernel. They still don't work.
> This is the output of uname -a
> FreeBSD freebsd.onix.ro 5.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Sat 
> Jan 18 07:39:17 CET 2003     
> root@freebsd.onix.ro:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CUSTOM  sparc64
> Please let me know if these are are supposed to be working on sparc64 
> platforms.
> 
> Thanks in advance,

These work in all the other machines that I know about which have been
tested; ultra 10, ultra 60, e250, blade 100.  The e450 has somewhat
peculiar interrupt routing, so it may have problems with the current
code, I know that the 4 port qfe card does not work right in it.  I
have remote access to an e450, I'll poke around a little and see if
I can get the qfe card to work, that may help with the other cards.

Jake

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