On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, John Birrell wrote:

> Thinwire works on my noname. Always has.
> 
> >From dmesg:
> 
> de0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: DC21040 [10Mb/s] pass 2.3
> de0: Ethernet address 08:00:2b:e5:1e:61
> de0: enabling Thinwire/AUI port
> de0: interrupting at isa irq 5

Can you give us the exact details of that machine? Those are pretty
much the exact same messages I get from my 233 MHz Multia (excepting
the pci device number and irq), and mine certainly does not work.
I never see anything out the port after NetBSD boots. (I do see
the loopback packet the monitor sends out, and more packets if I
try to netboot. This is with tcpdump runnning on another machine.)

I've been examining the Linux driver to see what it does differently,
and I'm playing with the NetBSD driver to see if I can't figure
out which of the things the Linux driver does differently is the
one that causes the Thinwire port to work, but so far I've had no
luck.

The sad thing about all of this, of course, is that I'm starting
to enjoy (in a rather twisted sense) working on device drivers
without any documentation. :-)

cjs

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