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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!ultra.sonic.net!miwok!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!solaris.cc.vt.edu!news.new-york.net!newton.crisp.net!newton.crisp.net!not-for-mail From: hpp@newton.crisp.net (Paul Hein) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Help! SMC Etherpower 10/100 NIC with FreeBSD 2.1 Date: 24 Apr 1996 13:17:27 -0400 Organization: CrispNet Internet Services Lines: 58 Message-ID: <4llnn7$o52@newton.crisp.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: newton.crisp.net Hello, I recently installed FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE on a P75 Intel endavor motherboard with SMC Ehterpower PCI network card ( DC21140 based 10/100 Mbps) Everything seems to be fine, except that whenever I telnet from this machine to a BSDI 1.1 with SMC elite Ultra( ISA card), it takes minutes to echo keystrokes. Same thing if I try to connect from BSDI machine to FreeBSD. BSDI machine has been in operation for one year flawlessly and works great. ( It's a news server. ) I can connect to FreeBSD machine from any other machines ( terminal servers or NE2000 based NIC machines ) without any problems. Is there any patch available for this driver?. I tried going through the source code ( if_de.c ) and the README file warns about beta software. Does anyone know if this card works well with FreeBSD?. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please forward your response via email as well, because I do not want to miss any responses. Kind of frustrated and about to junk this card in favor of cheapo NE2000. At least I know it works!. TIA hpp Here are the relevant boot messages: Apr 23 17:37:32 ns1 /kernel: FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Apr 23 16:51:18 1996 Apr 23 17:37:32 ns1 /kernel: root@ns1.crisp.net:/usr/src/sys/compile/GALLOW Apr 23 17:37:32 ns1 /kernel: CPU: 75-MHz Pentium 735\90 or 815\100 (Pentium-clas s CPU) Apr 23 17:37:32 ns1 /kernel: Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x525 Stepping=5 Apr 23 17:37:32 ns1 /kernel: Features=0x1bf<FPU,VME,PSE,MCE,CX8,APIC> Apr 23 17:37:32 ns1 /kernel: real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) Apr 23 17:37:32 ns1 /kernel: avail memory = 30666752 (29948K bytes) . . . Apr 23 17:37:35 ns1 /kernel: npx0 on motherboard Apr 23 17:37:35 ns1 /kernel: npx0: INT 16 interface Apr 23 17:37:35 ns1 /kernel: Probing for devices on the PCI bus: Apr 23 17:37:35 ns1 /kernel: chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 1 on pci0:0 Apr 23 17:37:35 ns1 /kernel: chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7 Apr 23 17:37:35 ns1 /kernel: de0 <Digital DC21140 Fast Ethernet> rev 17 int a ir q 10 on pci0:13 Apr 23 17:37:35 ns1 /kernel: de0: DC21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:9f:ee:bf Apr 23 17:37:35 ns1 /kernel: de0: enabling 10baseT UTP port Apr 23 17:37:36 ns1 /kernel: ncr0 <ncr 53c815 scsi> rev 3 int a irq 11 on pci0:1 5 Apr 23 17:37:36 ns1 /kernel: ncr0 waiting for scsi devices to settle Apr 23 17:37:36 ns1 /kernel: (ncr0:0:0): "SEAGATE ST31051N 0286" type 0 fixed SC