Subject: Re: Fast Ethernet for NetBSD ... which card? Here's a good one!
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.de>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 07/27/1999 16:22:03
On 27 Jul 1999 23:08:26 GMT 
 tron@zhadum.de (Matthias Scheler) wrote:

 > I remember that media support was missing in the driver initially.
 > I suppose it has been added in the meantime?

Yes, the card uses the MII subsystem.  From my development server:

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epic0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: SMC 83c170 Fast Ethernet, rev. 6
epic0: interrupting at irq 11
epic0: SMC9432TX, Ethernet address 00:e0:29:07:17:c4
qsphy0 at epic0 phy 3: QS6612 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
qsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
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dracul:thorpej 11$ ifconfig -m epic0
epic0: flags=8a43<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,ALLMULTI,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
        status: active
        supported Ethernet media:
                media autoselect
                media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex
                media 100baseTX
                media 10baseT mediaopt full-duplex
                media 10baseT
                media 100baseTX mediaopt loopback
                media none
        inet 129.99.33.130 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 129.99.33.255
dracul:thorpej 12$ 

BTW, I should mention that the driver will work just great in
NetBSD 1.4.1 (the bug fixes are in that source branch).

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>