Subject: Re: Feature of the EtherM
To: None <port-arm32@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Thomas Hoenl <Thomas.Hoenl@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
List: port-arm32
Date: 03/09/1998 06:54:15
Hello

I've got the following statemant from ant:

In message <Marcel-1.44-0302114603-bc8tRc9@maggie.ant.co.uk> you wrote:

> On Fri 27 Feb, Thomas Hoenl wrote:
> > emdebug displays: 
> > 
> > 20MHz VCO OK.  Transmit clock OK.  UTP is selected. IOMD interupts:
> > status = 220b840, request = 220b800, mask = 220b8bc
> > 
> > My card ist connected via 10base2 (BNC) not UTP.
> > But it works !!!
>
> This is normal.  The EtherM driver enables auto-sensing on the card, but the
> network port which is being used is not reported back correctly by the
> controller in this mode.  Hence it will say that UTP is selected even when
> BNC is being used.  It's just one of those "undocumented features"!
>
> Regards,
> Phil.

Just an info for the kernel--team.
I don't hope, that there are more of such features ...

Bye
   Thomas





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