Subject: Re: Recommendations for NIC
To: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/07/2006 14:42:33
Matthias Scheler wrote:

> In article <20060204141545.GD5671@sanctum.terrorpin.net>,
> 	Ben Collver <collver@peak.org> writes:
> > However, I have seen NetBSD fail to recognize Intel gigE chipsets that
> > are listed in the man page as supported.
> 
> Could you please let us know which ones? At least the manual page
> should be corrected.

I too have seen issues with wm.  I have a board here with:

wm0 at pci3 dev 3 function 0: Intel i82545EM 1000BASE-T Ethernet, rev. 1
wm0: interrupting at irq 11
wm0: 64-bit 133MHz PCIX bus
wm0: 256 word (8 address bits) MicroWire EEPROM
wm0: Ethernet address 00:30:48:70:41:98
wm1 at pci4 dev 2 function 0: Intel i82545EM 1000BASE-T Ethernet, rev. 1
wm1: interrupting at irq 11
wm1: 64-bit 100MHz PCIX bus
wm1: 256 word (8 address bits) MicroWire EEPROM
wm1: Ethernet address 00:07:e9:1f:c4:71

wm0 is on the motherboard, wm1 is a PCIX card.  wm0 will only work if I
hard wire it to 10mbit/sec (with "media 10baseT" in the ifconfig line).
The "external" wm works perfectly however.

Go figure...

Simon.
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