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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