As Doug Rabson wrote ... > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > As Doug Rabson wrote ... > > > On Sun, 9 May 1999, Khaled Daham wrote: > > > > > > > Hello folks > > > > > > > > I cvsupped,made world, built a kernel today and from now on the de > > > > > > Some tulip boards in alpha systems don't autonegociate properly so the SRM > > > has a way of forcing them to a particular mode. A change was made recently > > > > Recently... I think it's been there for a couple of years. > > Maybe you are remembering a NetBSD change? We just started doing the same > thing in FreeBSD recently.
Oops I was confusing things with another email about the messages the driver spits out on dma not keeping up. > > > to respect the SRM setting instead of using autoneg. The variable is > > > typically called ewa0_mode. To find the right setting, type > > > > > > >>>set ewa0_mode > > > > > > from the SRM prompt and it will give you a list of settings. Choose one, > > > then type e.g.: > > > > > > >>>set ewa0_mode Twisted-Pair > > > > Keep in mind that older SRMs that understand the older Tulip 10/100Mbit > > chips (21140 IRRC) might not recognise the new ones (is that the 21143?) > > > > Bit me once.. > > Yeah. That must be why my 164lx won't netboot. Could well be. My Aspen Alpine refused to with a DE500. A DE435 (10mbit only) worked just dandy. Groeten / Cheers, | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
