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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!portc01.blue.aol.com!news-peer.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news-dc.gsl.net!news.gsl.net!news From: John Lucas <jlucas@jnet.vi> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Need driver for DEC DC21140A [10-100 Mb/s] Fast Ethernet PCI card Date: Thu, 19 Dec 1996 12:29:35 -0400 Organization: University of the Virgin Islands Lines: 24 Message-ID: <32B96D6F.167EB0E7@jnet.vi> References: <jbtwwuhufz4.fsf@cuba.dnrc.bell-labs.com> <E2MG4F.tB@yedi.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: backen.uvi.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.01 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:32799 Wilko Bulte wrote: > > John Lin <lin@cuba.dnrc.bell-labs.com> writes: > > >We are looking for a driver for the DEC DC21140A [10-100 Mb/s] Fast > >Ethernet PCI card. If you have one, please send me a note. > > Isn't the de driver supposed to handle this? > Yes, but apparently there is a chip revision that breaks the driver; newer cards don't seem to work. I attempted to use the SMC Etherpower 10/100BDT, and it wouldn't work; it appears that it may be in 100BaseTX mode even when connected to a 10BaseT network (there may be other problems). I was making these attempts on FreeBSD v2.1.5R and reverted to the SMC Etherpower 10 (which works fine). I was sent some driver code that would not compile on v2.1.5R (it was probably for 2.2-current). The existence of this code bodes well for a fix in the near future. -- | John Lucas jlucas@jnet.vi | | Information Technology NIC Handle: JL423 | | University of the Virgin Islands (809) 693-1216 | | St. Thomas, VI 00802 http://www.jnet.vi/jlucas.html |