Re: 3Com 3CXFE574BT Support

On Wed, Dec 24, 2003 at 10:05:55PM -0500, Eric Pogroski wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 19:38:50 -0700 (MST)
> "M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]>, "M. Warner Losh" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > My 3CCFE574BT negotiated a 100Mbps link for me no problems last time I
> > checked (I'm on the road for the holidays, so I can't confirm).  Maybe
> > you could be more specific as to the versions of FreeBSD that you've
> > tried?  I recently went through and did a minor overhaul of the ep
> > driver and made sure that all the 3com ethernet cards I could find
> > worked for me, except for the 3c1, which is rare and no free OS
> > supports that I've been able to ascertain (it is close to a 3C589, but
> > has enough quirks to make it not quite work).
> > 
> > Warner
> 
> Hi Warner! and thanks for taking the time to reply to this during the holidays! 
> 
> The card in question is a '3Com Mehahertz 3CXFE574BT', it's a 10/100 X-Jack card
> (very handy, no dongles), and other anything that will recognize it as such, with the exception
> of FreeBSD (multiple flavors, see below):
> 
> I've used the card successfully on my Thinkpad 390X with the following results:
> 
> MS Windows (All Flavors): recognized correctly, with 10/100 settings available
> NetBSD (1.5x, 1.6x, NetBSD-current): recognized correctly, with 10/100 settings avail.
> OpenBSD (2.8 - 3.4): recognized correctly, with 10/100 settings avail
> FreeBSD 4.8: recognized as '3Com 574BT' , only 10 Mbs settings available
> FreeBSD 4.9: same
> FreeBSD 5.0: same
> FreeBSD 5.1: same
> FreeBSD 5.2: same
> 
> I determined (in the 'BSD's) if 10/100 settings for the card were available by doing the following:
> 'ifconfig inet ep0 10.0.1.25 media 100basetx mediaopt full-duplex', if it exited correctly, I knew I
> was in good shape.
> However, the same command under the freebsd's would generate 'SIOGETOPT:error' or something
> to that effect. Also, the ep (4) man page makes no reference to the ep driver having anything but 10 mbs
> settings.
> 
> Now I'm confused :( I really want to install freebsd next to winxp on this laptop (net's nice, but not enough software,
> and open has it's own quirks, that beyond setting up a bastion host, I'm unfamiliar with, and linux, is for me, not a
> real option).
> 
> again, thanks! If you need any more info, please let me know, I'll get it to you as soon as possible.

Hey guys, I also see this behavior with this particular card.

Warner, if you would like, I can drop one of these cards to you in the
mail if you want to tinker around with it.  Let me know...

-- 
Mike
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