On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 01:38:50PM -0500, Donald Lee wrote:
> I've been trying for some time to lay hands on a 10/100 ethernet card
> that I could put in production.  I have thwo cards now that "work", and one
> on the way that supposedly will work *well*.
> 
> To wit:
> 
> -Report from the field on 10/100 ethernet PCI cards in a PM 7600/132
> and NetBSD 1.5.1 kernel:
> 
> -the rtk driver (for a D-link DFE-530TX+ el-cheapo) works fine, sees
> the 100Base T, but has poor performance, as far as I can tell.
> Reportedly this is because it's a sub-marvelous chip.
> 
> -I have an Asante 09-00169-01 card (Dec 21140-AF chip).  It
> works, but only partially.  It works fine in 10BaseT mode.
> It does not auto-select 100Base T, nor FDX.  I can manually select
> 100baseTX, but it starts getting errors and whines and complains
> and gets lots of errors.  The result is poor (dismal) performance.
> I am using the de driver.  I could try the tlp driver, but I'm
> not sure exactly how.   Is there a How-To somewhere on this?

You have to build a new kernel; there is a how-to on the netbsd www site.
You need to comment out the de driver; add tlp and
options TLP_MATCH_21140
(You can also add the other TLP_MATCH_* options, it won't hurt).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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