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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.bhp.com.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU!dim From: dim@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (D. Gerasimatos) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress Pro PCI support [REPLY] Date: 22 Dec 1995 21:20:33 GMT Organization: Computer Science Undergrad Assoc., Univ. of Calif. Berkeley Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4bf7f1$ljs@agate.berkeley.edu> References: <4beso5$h5f@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: soda.csua.berkeley.edu From: davidg@Root.COM: I'm the author of the driver. The only known bug is with a hang problem when you change the media speed from 10Mbits to 100Mbits or vice versa without first unplugging the cable (or perhaps even if you do unplug the cable but don't reboot - I haven't investigated this yet fully). If you hook the card to a hub, you shouldn't have any problem with this. I'm too poor to buy a 100Mbit hub, so I have a pair of 100Mbit cards hooked together with a cross-over cable to do the testing between two machines. Note that this doesn't work with 2 Intel cards - the auto-speed selector gets confused and the cards don't work correctly. I had to use a DEC 21140 based card (an SMC 9332) on one end and an Intel card on the other in order to get this working. I don't have a Pro/10 card, so the driver almost certainly doesn't work with it (I don't even know if it uses the same NIC). The driver (if_fxp.c/if_fxpreg.h) is available in -current and I also have a version of the driver for FreeBSD 2.1. I have plans on putting the driver into the 2.1.x CVS branch at some point, so it should also be available in the next release of FreeBSD (2.1.something). -DG P.S., if you could post this followup to Usenet for others to see, I would appreciate it. Thanks.