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From: nate@trout.sri.MT.net (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [pccard-test-960508] Problems with nep on Digital HiNote Ultra II
Date: 12 Jun 1996 00:29:26 GMT
Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations
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Message-ID: <4pl316$2ga@helena.MT.net>
References: <4p458s$lbt@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <4p932t$lbv@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> <nqPssz0@quack.kfu.com> <4pjjmo$8c5@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>
Reply-To: "Nate Williams" <nate@sneezy.sri.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.sri.mt.net

In article <4pjjmo$8c5@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>,
Alan Judge <ajudge@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:
>nsayer@quack.kfu.com (Nick Sayer) writes:
>>My nep0 ifconfig line reads
>>ifconfig_nep0="inet [addr] -link0 netmask [netmask]"
>>and works just fine using coax.
>
>Thanks.  I tried this, but it doesn't seem to help.  It has the same
>effect as -link0 link1 which is what I was doing.  I did some more
>snooping and I note that input errors on nep0 are climbing steadily
>while it is connected to the net.  If I disconnect, the error rate
>drops.  The number of input packets remains zero at all times.
>
>I turned on debug with ifconfig, but no messages resulted.
>
>The kernel thinks that it can transmit (no errors), but I checked with
>tcpdump from another machine and nothing appears.

Using some slightly modified patches from the most recent Nomad releases
I've got a patched if_ep.c that works with either AUI/BNC ports on both
a 3C589B and a 3C589C.  However, the patches need to be tested to make
sure they don't break the existing 3C5X9 non-laptop users, so until I
get some feedback from my testers they won't be committed.

Hopefully it'll get committed to -current in the next week where you
folks can grab it and try it out.



Nate
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