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From: gbuchanan@localhost.on.sympatico.ca (Gardner Buchanan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Problems with DEC FDDI on ASUS P/I-55TP4XE
Date: 28 Nov 1996 01:07:06 GMT
Organization: Sympatico
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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.
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Gardner Buchanan <gbuchanan@sympatico.ca>
Ottawa, ON <gbuchanan@shl.com>