Re: How to make an Intel EtherExpress known to xe(4)?

Joerg Wunsch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
As Jamie Bowden wrote:

> Since you have have docs for this card, any ideas on why it likes to
> signal at least one watchdog timeout when inserted and ifconfig'd?

I think that only happens when inserting a dual-speed card into a 10
Mbit/s only network.  IIRC, when plugging it into a 100 Mbit/s hub, it
works immediately.

> I also have noticed that if I boot the machine with the card in the
> slot, the kernel is unable to attach, but slotting it after pccardd
> is up works fine.

I have never observed such a problem under 4.x, also with an "Intel"
version.

(Under 5.x, this is usually the case unless the driver is hard linked
into the kernel or pre-loaded from /boot/loader, but that's a problem
of devd not causing an artificial "nomatch" event upon startup for any
cards where the kernel didn't already find a driver.)
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