Subject: Re: 3com cards and cisco 1900 catalists
To: Reinoud <Reinoud.Koornstra@ibb.net>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/02/2000 07:50:27
On Wed, Aug 02, 2000 at 03:15:47PM +0200, Reinoud wrote:

 > Thanks for your answer.
 > I looked stuff up in cisco docs and this issue is known indeed.
 > They advise to disable the auto polarity.
 > However, normally this is a driver issue and so i dont think anything can
 > be done about it exept changing the kernel source regarding the support
 > for this card i guess. 
 > Bye,

Interesting .. they advise disabling auto-polarity... well, that's
certainly something we can do for some PHYs, but NOT the 3Com PHY,
as far as I know... (the 3Com PHY is ... incrediby stupid).

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