On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 07:16:55 +1000 
 c714553@vus415.telstra.com.au (Graham Jenkins) wrote:

 > I still don't have an answer to the following. Does this mean I'll
 > have to put Linux on our workstations instead? Or perhaps OpenBSD?
 >             ~~~~~                                         ~~~~~~~

I replied to your mail.  Perhaps it got lost; we have a flaky mail relay
at work.

Anyhow, I suggested you try setting the media to "aui".  On many of
the SMC/WD boards, there is no difference between UTP and AUI, as far
as software is concerned.

Yes, there is no autoselection in the driver, because it requires a
state machine to implement it, that no one has written yet.  If you'd like
to contribute this code, that would be fantastic.

 > > I have a real problem with using SMC8216C cards on several of our machines;
 > > neither the boot kernel nor the real kernel detects that its cable is
 > > plugged into its 10BaseT/UTP port. And the 'media' parameter for 'ifconfig'
 > > won't accept 'UTP' either.
 > > 
 > > I think the solution may be to somehow tell the respective kernels to use
 > > a different (SCM-ULTRA?) driver instead of autodetecting - but HOW?  Or
 > > perhaps I could do a 'modload' of another driver after boot?
 > 
 > I have tried 1.4.BETA and it's not fixed there either. Can someone please
 > get back to me urgently on this before the Release is frozen.
 > 
 > G.

        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>