Subject: SMC8216C - 10BaseT Problem Still Unresolved
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Graham Jenkins <c714553@vus415.telstra.com.au>
List: port-i386
Date: 04/30/1999 07:16:55
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?
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> 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.