On Sat, Jul 07, 2001 at 07:57:28PM -0700, Mike Cheponis wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 
> > > "100TX" and a bunch of other things, but sysinst is never able to even
> > > ping my nameserver or gateway.
> >
> > What if you try "10baseT" as media ? Or maybe just "autoselect" ?
> > Another way is to suspend sysinst (ctrl-Z) and type ifconfig -m ne0
> > to have the list of supported media.
> 
> ^Z to sysinst when it asks for media type:
> 
> # ifconfig -m ne0
> ne0: flags=8822<BROADCAST,NOTRAILERS,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	address 00:e0:98:86:5d:6a
> 	media: Ethernet manual (none)
> 	supported Ethernet media:
> 		media manual
> 	inet6 fe80:7::2e0:98ff:fe86:5d6a prefixlen 64
> 
> 
> # ifconfig media 10baseT ne0
> ifconfig: SIOCGIFFLAGS media: Device not configured

That should be 'ifconfig ne0 media 10baseT'
Anyway, this adapter doesn't support setting the media from the command
line,or at last the driver can't do it (this is what "media manual" means).
Just don't give any media to sysinst and all should work.

> 
> 
> 1.5.1_BETA2 kernel.  The card is a Netgear FA 410TX, but dmesg reports:
> 
> ne0 at pcmcia1 function 0 port 0x400-0x40f port 0x410-0x41f
> ne0: D-Link DE-650 (DL10019) Ethernet
> ne0: Ethernet address 00:e0:98:86:5d:6a
> pcmcia1: card irq 9
> 
> 
> I'm not sure why it's saying it's a D-Link DE-650 when it's really a
> Netgear FA-410TX, but maybe that's not the problem?

This shouldn't be a problem, maybe they use the same chip ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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