Subject: Re: Recommendations for NIC
To: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/06/2006 19:53:12
On Feb 6, 2006, at 7:42 PM, Simon Burge wrote:

> Matthias Scheler wrote:
>
>> In article <20060204141545.GD5671@sanctum.terrorpin.net>,
>> 	Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> writes:
>>> However, I have seen NetBSD fail to recognize Intel gigE chipsets  
>>> that
>>> are listed in the man page as supported.
>>
>> Could you please let us know which ones? At least the manual page
>> should be corrected.
>
> I too have seen issues with wm.  I have a board here with:

Where are your PHYs?

>
> wm0 at pci3 dev 3 function 0: Intel i82545EM 1000BASE-T Ethernet,  
> rev. 1
> wm0: interrupting at irq 11
> wm0: 64-bit 133MHz PCIX bus
> wm0: 256 word (8 address bits) MicroWire EEPROM
> wm0: Ethernet address 00:30:48:70:41:98
> wm1 at pci4 dev 2 function 0: Intel i82545EM 1000BASE-T Ethernet,  
> rev. 1
> wm1: interrupting at irq 11
> wm1: 64-bit 100MHz PCIX bus
> wm1: 256 word (8 address bits) MicroWire EEPROM
> wm1: Ethernet address 00:07:e9:1f:c4:71
>
> wm0 is on the motherboard, wm1 is a PCIX card.  wm0 will only work  
> if I
> hard wire it to 10mbit/sec (with "media 10baseT" in the ifconfig  
> line).
> The "external" wm works perfectly however.
>
> Go figure...
>
> Simon.
> --
> Simon Burge                            <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
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-- thorpej