AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet driver issues in 5.3RC1 / 5.3-STABLE

[David O'Brien]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:06:26AM +0200, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> Hi, 
> Currently I'm running 5.3-RC1 / 5.3-STABLE and it seems like this
> version have issues with AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet NICs. The driver
> (pcn) loads and detects the NIC properly without any errors but the
> interface is unable to trasmit or receive any data. A workaround (not a
> very nice one afaik), is to recompile the kernel and leave out the pcn
> driver. By doing so FreeBSD will use the old lnc driver instead which
> works. Any ideas what's causing this behaviour?
> I'm using "FreeBSD BOX.BUNDLE 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1: Thu Oct
> 21 17:55:29 CEST 2004".

What is the dmesg output for this device?  Several of my machines have
pcn(4) devices:

    pcn0: <AMD PCnet/PCI 10/100BaseTX>

with zero problems.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)