Re: Call for testing: Attansic L1E

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

On Fri, 17 Apr 2009, Kevin Lahey wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:05:02 +0100
> "Christoph Egger" <Christoph_Egger%gmx.de@localhost> wrote:
>
> > Izumi suggested improvements to the ale(4) driver some weeks ago
> > on this list. Please give them a try.
>
> I implemented (most of) Izumi's excellent suggestions without managing
> to fix the problem.  It turned out that m_devget(9) behaves differently
> under NetBSD and FreeBSD;  removing the ETHER_ALIGN fixed the problem.
> I've attached my not-very-tested fix (only if_ale.c needed changes),
> which has been working okay on my 100Mb network for the last couple of
> hours (and a gigabyte+ of traffic) at least.

Good catch!

It's _almost_ working for me, but I'm having problems with it negotiating 
correct media type.

Plugged into a 10/100 port, I get status active, but unless I configure 
10baseT media, no traffic is sent/received (it negotiates 100baseTX with 
autoselect). Plugged into a 10/100/1000 port, I get no carrier when set to autoselect 
or 1000baseT, but it works when hardwired to 10baseT or 100baseTX.

This is all with ukphy.

--
Stephen