FreeBSD-5.2 BETA & Davicom ethernet

Maxime Henrion mux at freebsd.org
Tue Dec 2 07:21:19 PST 2003


Aditya wrote:
> > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003 15:41:42 +0300, Vyacheslav Silakov <seal at inar.ru> said:
> > I've read in October that problem with Davicom ethernet card (Sun
> > Netra X1) is fixed under FreeBSD-5-CURRENT. Now I've booted fresh
> > FreeBSD-5.2-BETA and found old bugs:
> >
> > [..]  FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #0: Wed Nov 26 23:53:05 GMT 2003
> > root at luthien.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC [..]  dc0: <Davicom
> > DM9102A 10/100BaseTX> port 0x10000-0x100ff at device 12.0 on pci0
> > dc0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ [..]  dc1: <Davicom DM9102A
> > 10/100BaseTX> port 0x10100-0x101ff mem 0x2000-0x20ff at device 5.0
> > on pci0 dc1: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> I can confirm this on a Netra X1 that I just installed 5.2-BETA
> freshly using a FTP Passive install:
> 
> FreeBSD some.lan.grot.org 5.2-BETA FreeBSD 5.2-BETA #0: Wed Nov 26
> 23:53:05 GMT 2003 root at luthien.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> sparc64
> 
> dc0: <Davicom DM9102A 10/100BaseTX> port 0x10000-0x100ff at device 12.0 on pci0
> dc0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
> 
> dc1: <Davicom DM9102A 10/100BaseTX> port 0x10100-0x101ff mem 0x2000-0x20ff at device 5.0 on pci0
> dc1: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00

This is expected for now.  I coudln't find the time to add support for
getting the MAC address from the OpenFirmware in dc(4) yet.  With a bit
of luck, this will be working soon, though probably not before
5.3-RELEASE, unless someone else tackles this issue.

Cheers,
Maxime


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