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From: Font <font@mcs.ReMoVeThIsPaRt.net>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: 2.2.1: Does Intel EtherExpress Pro/10 driver work?
Date: 14 May 1997 21:31:31 -0500
Organization: MCSNet Services
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I've got a couple Intel Etherexpress Pro/10-type cards around, one a
350446-XXX Pro/10, and the other a 352622-XXX Pro/10+. I intended to
put them into a leftover 386SX to educate myself about networks. But
I can't get them to come up under FreeBSD (which does come up on the
386SX just fine, albeit slowly).
The Pro/10, set for IRQ 10 and port 300 and TP only, is happy all the
way up the ifconfig, at which point the light on the hub goes out, and
no traffic goes out.
The Pro/10+, also set for IRQ 10 and port 300 and TP only, is alive
according to the hub, but the driver claims that the EEPROM on the
card has the card marked for IRQ 0 (zero). This version of the
Pro/10+ has flash, PNP, and full duplex operation. PNP is off, of
course. Whether flash is on or off doesn't affect the operation of
the card with FreeBSD: I can't ping anything else (where "anything
else" is another FreeBSD box on the same hub which is working fine and
can talk to everything).
Am I unlucky enough to have two cards, one older, one newer, whose
steppings are unsupported by the 2.2.1 driver? Are there common
configuration mistakes which I should be checking? Is there anything
special that one must do to get these cards to work? Has anyone ever
gotten one of these to work? :-)
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