Giles Lean wrote:
> > I am running 1.4.3 und I'm trying to use a 3Com 3c905B-TX. The LED on the
> > card isn't on. Before you ask:  I tried several cables and they worked
> > fine with other machines. :-) Here are some more informations:
> > ...
> > 	media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT)
> > 	status: no carrier
> > 	inet 129.13.98.189 netmask 0xffff0000 broadcast 129.13.255.255
> 
> This card is problematic.  Most now work with the NetBSD driver, but a
> couple of us have (had :-) cards that still do not.  It seems based on
> changes that were necessary to get some others' cards working that
> 3com have shipped about three variants of this card. :-(

Here's a hack you could try. I use it to get the on-board 3c905B-TX on
my Dell Precision to work. The patch turns off the media
autoconfiguration, so you'll have to set the media yourself with
ifconfig.

Apply this patch and build a kernel with "options IF_EX_PCI_MII_HACK".

Index: if_ex_pci.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/syssrc/sys/dev/pci/if_ex_pci.c,v
retrieving revision 1.12.4.1
diff -u -r1.12.4.1 if_ex_pci.c
--- if_ex_pci.c	2000/10/19 13:54:28	1.12.4.1
+++ if_ex_pci.c	2000/12/13 08:32:23
@@ -127,7 +127,11 @@
 	{ PCI_PRODUCT_3COM_3C900BTPC,   EX_CONF_90XB,
 	  "3c900B-TPC Ethernet" },
 
+#ifdef  IF_EX_PCI_MII_HACK
+	{ PCI_PRODUCT_3COM_3C905BTX,	EX_CONF_90XB,
+#else
 	{ PCI_PRODUCT_3COM_3C905BTX,	EX_CONF_90XB|EX_CONF_MII|EX_CONF_INTPHY,
+#endif
 	  "3c905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet" },
 	{ PCI_PRODUCT_3COM_3C905BT4,	EX_CONF_90XB|EX_CONF_MII,
 	  "3c905B-T4 10/100 Ethernet" },

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Michael Eriksson <eramore@era-t.ericsson.se>
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