Subject: Re: Re: would my Quad card be broken ?
To: Michael <macallan18@earthlink.net>
From: Joel CARNAT <joel@carnat.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 06/13/2005 22:52:42
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Hi,

On Mon, Jun 13 2005 - 14:09, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> > I have a quad card in my Ultra5 that has it network transfer rate
> > limited to about 200K/s.
> > I first thought it might be the cable, so I changed it, same problem.
> > I connected my laptop via X-cable, same problem.
> > I changed the switch port, same problem.
> > I tested another quad port (normal hme1 and tested hme4) same problem.
>=20
> Odd. No excessive collisions or errors as far as I can tell, so the
> cable should be ok. Any chance to try a different switch / hub ? Just as
> an example: the onboard NIC on my PowerStack II ( a bog-standard DEC
> 21140 ) worked perfectly well with a dumb 10MBit hub but would not
> transfer anything with my 100/10MBit switch. A PCI card with the same
> kind of chip works fine. Forcing the onboard NIC to 10MBit/s didn't
> change anything, apparently it just dislikes the switch for whatever
> reason.
>=20

 No I dont' have another HUB/SWITCH :(
 But my testing with X-cable should show it's not HUB related, shouldn't it=
 ?

> Another thing that might help - try to figure out what kind of PHYs your
> card uses ( use options MIIVERBOSE ) and if NetBSD supports it use that
> one instead of ukphy.=20

 MIIVERBOSE is on (as in the default kernel).
 I don't get how you can "figure" what the *PHY is.
 Would that "Sun Microsystems PCIO Ebus2" be the clue ?
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################################################################
Sun Microsystems PCIO Ebus2 (miscellaneous bridge, revision 0x01) at pci3 d=
ev 0 function 0
 not configured
hme1 at pci3 dev 0 function 1: Sun Happy Meal Ethernet, rev. 1
hme1: interrupting at ivec 3011
hme1: Ethernet address 08:00:20:a7:e9:31
ukphy0 at hme1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: OUI 0x0006b8, model 0x000c, rev. 1
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
################################################################

 Using number written on chips (270-5406-02), I found this link
http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/Systems/Example/Devices/ETHER_SunQuadF=
astEther_PCI.html
 As I understand this doc, those interfaces should be QFE (not HME).
=20
 Here (http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-bugs/2001/02/28/0001.html),
 I found qfe are shown as hme and still linked to a ukphy.

 I'm lost :)

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