On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 08:43:06AM -0400, Joseph N Reed wrote:

 > but $ man gsip shows a section in the BUGS section stating that this driver
 > does not support fiber optic cards, which the ga-621 is.  the chipset is the
 > same as the ga-622, but there's some differences, apparently.
 > 
 > i tried the card under -current 1.5ZC (i386) (src from about 3.5 months ago). 
 > the kernel recognised the card, but could not determine any media types.  when
 > i tried to manuall set it via ifconfig, i got an error
 >  ifconfig: gsip0: no link type?
 > 
 > i'm currently recompiling the kernel with -current 1.6C (i386) (from last
 > week), in hopes that something has changed with gsip since then.
 > 
 > anyone have any more information?

I will send you a patch to try today.  Lack of 1000BASE-SX support in
that driver is due simply to a lack of hardware for me to test with (all
of my DP83820 cards are 1000BASE-T).

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>