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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!europa.clark.net!newsfeed.sovam.com!sovam!demos!news.uni-stuttgart.de!news.rhrz.uni-bonn.de!usenet From: Jakob Naumann <naumann@phop4.physik.uni-bonn.de> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: DEC 21140 based 10/100 Ethernet adapters Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 22:37:50 +0200 Organization: Physikalisches Institut Universitaet Bonn Lines: 47 Message-ID: <3394809E.41C67EA6@phop4.physik.uni-bonn.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: phop5.physik.uni-bonn.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (X11; I; NetBSD 1.2 i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6049 Hi! I have a problem getting 21140-based Ethernet cards to work, and maybe someone here already has had the same problem and has solved it. We are running NetBSD 1.2, and we tried connecting the computer to our (conventional 10Mb/) network using a Lantronics LFA-PT (which uses a DEC 21140-AE). The network configuration is OK (we just swapped the new card with the one we're using all the time and change the ifconfig to use device de0 insted of our usual eth2). The tulip driver is compiled into the kernel, and the ethernet adapter is detected when the system is booted and initializes with no error message. While the card itself seems happy (as far as one can tell from flashing lights), it simply does not work at all. We then plugged the card into a Linux PC. At first, it did not work either, but when I get a new driver from the net (tulip.c by Donald Becker), it worked just fine. So we naturally suspected a problem with the NetBSD DEC tulip driver. Hoping that the problem might be due to a peculiarity of the LFA-PT, we exchanged it for the SMC Ether Power 10/100. Well, nothing gained by that - the SMC did not work either. It did not detect the 10 MB/s (the driver reported 100 MB/s), and the lights stopped flashing altogather once the driver had initialized the card. Which is really not a huge surprise regarding the fact that it also has a DEC 21140-AE. Looking through old news archives I found some mails about a "new" (at that time) "-AC" revision of the tulip chip makeing patches necessary. Or am I overlooking something obvious? Did anyone get any DEC 21140-AE module to work under NetBSD? Jakob -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jakob Naumann - Physikalisches Institut - Nussallee 12 - Universitaet Bonn Tel. 0228-73-3229 - E-mail naumann@phop4.physik.uni-bonn.de In case of problems try 'golfie@lst.informatik.uni-erlangen.de' instead.