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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!192.220.251.22!netnews.nwnet.net!chester.cwu.edu!opus.cts.cwu.edu!skynyrd From: skynyrd@opus.cts.cwu.edu (Chris Timmons) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Problems with DEC FDDI on ASUS P/I-55TP4XE Date: 28 Nov 1996 18:12:46 GMT Organization: Central Washington University Lines: 61 Message-ID: <57kkmu$nfn@chester.cwu.edu> References: <57iojq$94a$1@news1.sympatico.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: opus.cts.cwu.edu NNTP-Posting-User: skynyrd X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I can't explain why you have better results on the Compaq machine, but we're running basically the same setup here using a P55TP4N which is a slightly newer design of the same board. Definately upgrade to 2.1.6; stability improved dramatically from 2.1.0 (which wasn't bad to begin with.) -Chris Gardner Buchanan (gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca) wrote: : Hello: : I have a Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI Controller which I'm trying to use : with FreeBSD 2.1-RELEASE. When I attach the card to (an appropriately : patched for PCI) Compaq Prolinea, it works OK, but when I attach : it to my ASUS P/I-55TP4XE motherboard, I can't get it to work. : The probe phase looks like this: : /kernel: Probing for devices on the PCI bus: : /kernel: chip0 <Intel 82437 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:0 : /kernel: chip1 <Intel 82371 (Triton)> rev 2 on pci0:7 : /kernel: fpa0 <Digital DEFPA PCI FDDI Controller> rev 0 int a irq 10 : on pci0:10 : /kernel: fpa0: DEC DEFPA PCI FDDI DAS Controller : /kernel: fpa0: FDDI address 08:00:2b:b7:75:14, FW=2.46, HW=0, SMT V7.2 : /kernel: fpa0: FDDI Port[A] = A (PMD = ANSI Multi-Mode), : FDDI Port[B] = B (PMD = ANSI Multi-Mode) : /kernel: de0 <Digital DC21041 Ethernet> rev 17 int a irq 11 on pci0:12 : /kernel: de0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 Ethernet address 00:00:c0:0c:73:c8 : /kernel: de0: enabling AUI port : Then, later when it is ifconfig'ed up, I get this: : /kernel: fpa0: Link Unavailable : /kernel: fpa0: Halted: halt code = 3 (Software Fault) : last message repeated 4 times : At this stage the driver sucks up about 90% of my 75Mhz pentium : until I ifconfig it down again. : My guess is that there is some incompatibility between the ASUS : MoBo and the FDDI card, but I don't know the MoBo, the driver or : the FDDI adapter well enough to guess what exactly needs to be : fixed. : My line of attack will be to get the latest BIOS from ASUS, and : see if it either helps, or provides more avenues for tinkering with : the PCI settings, but I'm not confident about where that will lead. : If anyone out there has real experience with these adapters and the : FreeBSD driver, and recognises my symptoms, please let me know. : Thanks. : ============================================ : Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca> : Ottawa, ON <gbuchanan@shl.com>