Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:04:32 +0200 From: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de> To: Bill Harris <harrisb@rcisd.org> Cc: ticso@cicely.de, freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DC driver real slow on 5.4/alpha 4100 Message-ID: <20050721150431.GO67987@cicely12.cicely.de> In-Reply-To: <84ad48bef9de0621a6efe8ceba1ee2ce@rcisd.org> References: <OF342EB215.0D01F1C6-ON86257043.0061F5B5-86257043.0062CB5C@rcisd.org> <20050719205911.GJ60433@cicely12.cicely.de> <1a6f6c72c4a19a18ffc5c4bd1c1d09c6@rcisd.org> <20050721141858.GN67987@cicely12.cicely.de> <84ad48bef9de0621a6efe8ceba1ee2ce@rcisd.org>
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:32:36AM -0500, Bill Harris wrote: > That was the first thing I tried. I'm afraid somehow I've Ups - I've overread that you even powered down. However since this is a DEC card you can also do a lot from SRM. > caused the card to get into a non-functional state. Tried switching > ports on my switch, unplugging, ifconfig down/up changed from 10/100 > and back. I'm hoping that powering it down and leaving it all day > without network cable will let it reset. Dunno. > > What I'm worried about is those cards are hard to find, and what > other cards does FBSD support in the Alpha 4100, if this card is toast? Theoretically every card should work. I've using a fxp(4) based card in AS4100 plus PC164 and xl(4) based in PC164. I'm also running a tx(4) based in NoName, but these have broken support for autoselect. Card selection for alpha is only a problem if you want to netboot, otherwise the same criteria exists as for other platforms. > On Jul 21, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Bernd Walter wrote: > > >On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:14:45AM -0500, Bill Harris wrote: > >>Bernd, > >> > >>I have an identical AS4100 at home (my office heater) and had > >>put 5.4 on it last week. It also shows to be using a dc driver, the > >>same DE500 card. > >> > >>Well, I think I've screwed my home server up this morning. It's > >>connected to a Linksys 10/100 switch, and it had been running > >>fine under 10baseT/half. > >> > >>I decided to try and switch it to 100, through a telnet session > >>(should > >>have not been a problem) and the card has locked up. I tried to set > >>the card (now from the console) to auto-negiotiate, but nothing. No > >>lights at all on the card. > >> > >>I've unplugged switch, card, power down, rebooted, but my network > >>card is dead. It still shows succesfully probed in the dmesg, showing > >>the mac address and all, but it's interface is DOWN and won't come > >>back > >>online or show any LED's. > >> > >>Having to leave for work after this fine piece of experimentation, I > >>unplugged > >>everything, turned power off on the server and left. > >> > >>Any ideas how I might rescue/reset my card? What are some options? > > > >You might have success with ifconfig down/up. -- B.Walter BWCT http://www.bwct.de bernd@bwct.de info@bwct.de
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