Subject: Re: problems with NetGear FA-310TX card
To: Perry E. Metzger <perry@piermont.com>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@research.att.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/14/1999 23:28:03
In message <87yaawsuyn.fsf@snark.piermont.com>, "Perry E. Metzger" writes:
> 
> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com> writes:
> > I recently got a NetGear FA-310TX 10/100 Ethernet card with a 82C169 chip i
> n 
> > it.  It works properly on Mr. Bill's (poor excuse for an) operating system;
>  
> > NetBSD finds it, but can't seem to send or receive packets from it.  It's 
> > hooked to a 10BaseT hub; according to both ifconfig and the lights on the 
> > back, the card realizes that.  Manually setting it to 'media 10baseT' hasn'
> t 
> > helped.
> > 
> > Any suggestions?  I'm running the Comdex snapshot; the board is found by th
> e 
> > tlp driver.
> 
> Can you send the autoconfig messages for just the tlp to the list?

I thought of that *after* I posted...

Dec 14 22:32:36 cc1024241-c /netbsd: tlp0 at pci0 dev 19 function 0: Lite-On 82C169 Ethernet, pass 2.0
Dec 14 22:32:36 cc1024241-c /netbsd: tlp0: interrupting at irq 11
Dec 14 22:32:36 cc1024241-c /netbsd: tlp0: Ethernet address 00:a0:cc:59:01:70
Dec 14 22:32:36 cc1024241-c /netbsd: ukphy0 at tlp0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface

The interrupt address agrees with what the BIOS mutters at boot time.

		--Steve Bellovin