Miata MX5 and 64 bit gigabit ethernet

[Rob B]

At 11:32 PM 5/11/2003, rupp at coredump.at sent this up the stick:
>On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:57:23PM -0700, Fred Clift wrote:
> > The best answer for you is to get one and try it, or perhaps not bother at
> > all.
>
>I just tried a DEGPA-TA in my PWS500au with bug.
>
>SRM does not see the card, but Tru64 5.1A initialises it correctly
>during boot. Autonegotiate problems with a brain dead unmanaged switch
>have been solved with lan_config.
>
>Diagnosis: works perfectly in a 64bit slot.
>pci_device_override is set to -1 and pci_parity is 1.
>
>I have no possibility to test the card with FreeBSD at the moment.
>
>The question remains if it is reasonable to buy a network card that
>is more expensive than a used Miata.

I tried a Netgear GA622T (nge driver) in a 64-bit slot and it is recognised 
during the boot process, the OS can't use it.

from 4.8 dmesg:
nge0: <National Semiconductor Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x10000-0x100ff mem 
0x8206c000-0x8206cfff irq 0 at device 6.0 on pci0
nge0: interrupting at APECS irq 0
nge0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:29:51:ef
miibus0: <MII bus> on nge0
nsgphy0: <DP83861 10/100/1000 media interface> on miibus0
nsgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto

ifconfig:
nge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
         inet 192.168.100.11 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
         ether 00:40:f4:29:51:ef
         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
         status: active

5.1-RELEASE seems to make it work, but this is on a different Alpha (a 
Cabriolet) and in a 32-bit slot.

dmesg:
nge0: <National Semiconductor Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x10000-0x100ff mem 
0x8206c000-0x8206cfff irq 0 at device 6.0 on pci0
nge0: interrupting at APECS irq 0
nge0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:29:51:ef
miibus0: <MII bus> on nge0
nsgphy0: <DP83861 10/100/1000 media interface> on miibus0
nsgphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto

aylee% ifconfig
nge0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         options=13<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
         inet 192.168.100.31 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.100.255
         ether 00:40:f4:29:51:ef
         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
         status: active

Cheers,
Rob


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