"Steven M. Bellovin" wrote:

> In message <20060207034233.D97D823CFB@thoreau.thistledown.com.au>, Simon Burge 
> writes:
> >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.
> 
> For wm0, are you using it on a 10BaseT network?  I've noticed similar 
> problems on my laptop:
> 
> wm0 at pci2 dev 1 function 0: Intel i82540EP 1000BASE-T Ethernet, rev. 3
> wm0: interrupting at irq 11
> wm0: 32-bit 33MHz PCI bus
> wm0: 64 word (6 address bits) MicroWire EEPROM
> wm0: Ethernet address 00:11:25:43:e8:a4
> makphy0 at wm0 phy 1: Marvell 88E1011 Gigabit PHY, rev. 4
> 
> It works fine on 100BaseT networks; on 10BaseT nets, I have to set the 
> speed explicitly, even though it detects the network speed correctly.
> The problem was introduced somewhere between 2.0 and 3.0; it's still 
> there on -current.  See PR kern/30078.

I did leave out some details (that I'd forgotten about).  The only way I
could get that wm to work was to plug it in to a 10mbit hub and force it
with "media 10baseT".  I couldn't get it to talk to either a 100mbit or
gige switch with any combinations of autoneg or media options.

Simon.
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