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>