joda@pdc.kth.se (Johan Danielsson) wrote:

} Patrick Hartling <patrick@137.org> writes:
} 
} Hi,
} 
} Could you back out of Bill's patch and try this instead? I think I
} have an idea on how to fix this, but it would be interesting to see
} what this does on a real 557.

Johan,

I can boot using this patch.  Here's the output from dmesg:

NetBSD 1.4O (RATBERT) #16: Fri Nov 19 08:33:54 CST 1999
    root@friley-161-231.res.iastate.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/RATBERT
cpu0: family 6 model 1 step 9
cpu0: Intel Pentium Pro (686-class)
total memory = 65152 KB
avail memory = 58072 KB
using 840 buffers containing 3360 KB of memory
BIOS32 rev. 0 found at 0xfd9f0
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x1237 (rev. 0x02)
fxp0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0: Intel i82557 Ethernet, rev 1
fxp0: interrupting at irq 11
000b 000b 000f 000b 000f 0003 
000b 000b 000b 000b 000f 0003 000f 0003 
fxp0: failed to detect EEPROM size000b 000b 000b 000f 000f 0003 
000b 000b 000b 000b 000b 0003 
000b 000b 000b 000b 000b 0007 
000b 000b 000b 000b 000f 0003 
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:a0:c9:06:c7:a0, 10/100 Mb/s
nsphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: DP83840 10/100 media interface, rev. 1
nsphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
fxp0: supplying EUI64: 00:a0:c9:ff:fe:06:c7:a0
[ Remaining deleted ]

 -Patrick


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