Subject: Problems with ex0 on 1.4 3Com905
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Jeff Northon <jeffo@sasq.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/15/1999 19:09:07
Hi,

We are looking into problems with 3Com905 cards that seem to loose the
ability to autosence the media they are attached to. It looks like a part
of the chipset exphy0 gets hosed and then the card just "Dumbs Down" 

With exphy0 in place:

A piece from messages:

Jun 11 12:55:40 www3 /netbsd: ex0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0: 3Com
3c905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet
Jun 11 12:55:40 www3 /netbsd: ex0: interrupting at irq 10
Jun 11 12:55:40 www3 /netbsd: ex0: MAC address 00:50:04:71:f0:8c
Jun 11 12:55:40 www3 /netbsd: exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com internal media
interface
Jun 11 12:55:40 www3 /netbsd: exphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX,
100baseTX-FDX, auto

After the "problem"

Jun 14 01:18:47 www3 /netbsd: ex0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: 3Com 
3c905B-FDX 10/100 Ethernet
Jun 14 01:18:47 www3 /netbsd: ex0: interrupting at irq 11
Jun 14 01:18:47 www3 /netbsd: ex0: MAC address 00:50:04:a5:6e:75

What now?

Jeff Northon