On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:37:43AM -0700, B. James Phillippe wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I recently plopped a DE500(B) DEC 21143-PC based NIC in my
> NetBSD-1.5.2/Alpha box.  It seems to operate fine with the exception that I
> must manually set the media type.  For example, if I connect it to a
> 10baseT hub, it will not autoselect; I must "ifconfig de0 media 10baseT".
> If I run "ifconfig de0 media auto" I get:
> 
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA: Device not configured
> 
> On bootup, the card is detected as follows:
> 
> de0 at pci0 dev 5 function 0
> de0: interrupting at eb164 irq 2
> de0: DEC DE500-BA 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0
> de0: address 00:00:f8:08:e6:74
> de0: enabling 100baseTX port
> 
> Note that no MII is detected, and indeed, when I look at the card, I see no
> MII chips that I recognize.  The only suspect chip is labeled "ML6694CQ".
> 
> In any case, even without an MII this board should be capable of
> autosense/autonegotiation/NWAY.  Is there something I'm missing, or should
> I try the tlp driver?

Yes, try the tlp driver. Autonegotiation with de has never been reliable
anyway.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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