Netra T1 105 hme0 woes ?

[Xavier Beaudouin]

Hi there,

I am experimenting some woes about hme0 and Netra T1 model 105.

It is mostly working like a charm, but when I setup in /etc/rc.conf 100 
Full-Duplex operation mode (/sbin/ifconfig hme0 media 100BaseTX 
mediaopt full-duplex) the interface seems to not send any packets on 
the network.

But if I set as autodiscovery mode and after (in rc.local for example), 
the interface works like a charm...

It doesn't seems to be a bug inside hme drivers, but some strange arch 
on theses boxes :

---//--- (extract of /var/run/dmesg.boot)---
hme0: <Sun HME 10/100 Ethernet> mem 0xe0000000-0xe0007fff at device 1.1 
on pci1
miibus0: <MII bus> on hme0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
ukphy1: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0
ukphy1:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
hme0: Ethernet address: 08:00:20:d9:d3:b0
hme0: if_start running deferred for Giant
hme0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
sym0: <875> port 0xc00000-0xc000ff mem 
0xe000a000-0xe000afff,0xe0008000-0xe00080
ff at device 2.0 on pci1
sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-20, SE, parity checking
sym0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
hme1: <Sun HME 10/100 Ethernet> mem 0xe0010000-0xe0017fff at device 3.1 
on pci1
miibus1: <MII bus> on hme1
ukphy2: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
ukphy2:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
hme1: Ethernet address: 08:00:20:d9:d3:b0
hme1: if_start running deferred for Giant
hme1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
---//-----

As you can see there is *two* media interfaces on hme0 (ukphy0 and 
ukphy1)... I think that the system may take the first media interface 
that is not connected (or unexistant) on this platform.

Note that when opening this box, I can find a ethernet port near the 
CPU... Maybe this port is the ukphy0 and it is desactivated per default 
on Solaris ?

Thanks for any advices about that ... (do I need to send-pr about that 
?)

/Xavier

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