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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3C509 COMBO quits working for no reason (well no obvious one)
Date: 25 Jul 1996 21:10:00 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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craigs@os.com (Craig Shrimpton) wrote:
> I have just installed FreeBSD 2.1.5 and am very unhappy. For some reason my
> 3C509 Combo card or the netwoking in general, simply quits.
...
> This card in this same machine will run:
...
> FreeBSD 2.1.0
>
> But *NOT* 2.1.5
Are you sure you've picked the _updated_ version?
Otherwise, apply this patch:
Index: sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/cvs/src/sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c,v
retrieving revision 1.28.4.6
retrieving revision 1.28.4.7
diff -u -u -r1.28.4.6 -r1.28.4.7
--- if_ep.c 1996/07/13 10:51:10 1.28.4.6
+++ if_ep.c 1996/07/16 00:15:17 1.28.4.7
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
*/
/*
- * $Id: if_ep.c,v 1.28.4.6 1996/07/13 10:51:10 davidg Exp $
+ * $Id: if_ep.c,v 1.28.4.7 1996/07/16 00:15:17 davidg Exp $
*
* Promiscuous mode added and interrupt logic slightly changed
* to reduce the number of adapter failures. Transceiver select
@@ -772,7 +772,7 @@
}
IF_DEQUEUE(&ifp->if_snd, m);
- outw(BASE + EP_W1_TX_PIO_WR_1, len | 0x8000); /* XXX */
+ outw(BASE + EP_W1_TX_PIO_WR_1, len);
outw(BASE + EP_W1_TX_PIO_WR_1, 0x0); /* Second dword meaningless */
/* compute the Tx start threshold for this packet */
--
cheers, J"org
joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)