Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) working with 10base2/BNC? I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and should be supported according to man xl page. You did use T-connectors with 50 ohm terminators at both ends of the coax, right? (Just checking the obvious.) IIRC. you can use the 3Com setup/diagnostic program for the card to force it to use a particular media selection and store that setting in non-volatile memory on the card. Not certain about this, it's been a while . . . You can also boot the 3Com diagnostic diskette (it runs MS-DOS) to do a loopback test of a pair of cards. Since that eliminates FreeBSD from the test, it should give you a better idea whether your problem is with the hardware or the xl driver. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC
Hi all, anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) working with 10base2/BNC? I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and should be supported according to man xl page. With ifconfig_xl0=DHCP in /etc/rc.conf and BNC cable connected (with terminator) ifconfig reports: xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU inet6 fe80::204:76ff:feed:6697%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:04:76:ed:66:97 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier dhclient reports xl0: no link. giving up Now, if I manually try to switch to BNC media with: # ifconfig xl0 media 10base2/BNC I get: # xl0: selecting AUI media, half-duplex and a kernel panic (trap 12). The BNC cable itself works with another box. More information below. Any help appreciated. Karol uname: FreeBSD 6.1-SECURITY #0: Mon Aug 28 05:21:08 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 verbose dmesg: xl0: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO Fast Etherlink XL port 0xec00-0xec7f mem 0xfebffc00-0xfebffc7f irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 xl0: Reserved 0x80 bytes for rid 0x14 type 3 at 0xfebffc00 xl0: using memory mapped I/O xl0: media options word: 3a xl0: found MII/AUTO miibus0: MII bus on xl0 xlphy0: 3Com internal media interface on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: found AUI xl0: found BNC xl0: bpf attached xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:76:ed:66:97 xl0: [MPSAFE] vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq0: clk 561773997 irq1: atkbd0 257 0 irq5: rl0 48 0 irq6: fdc011 0 irq8: rtc 71886127 irq10: xl0 3 0 irq14: ata0 2139 3 irq15: ata1 47 0 Total 636164 1129 -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC
What museum is this in, can we visit it? On 11/2/06, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) working with 10base2/BNC? I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and should be supported according to man xl page. With ifconfig_xl0=DHCP in /etc/rc.conf and BNC cable connected (with terminator) ifconfig reports: xl0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 options=9RXCSUM,VLAN_MTU inet6 fe80::204:76ff:feed:6697%xl0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 ether 00:04:76:ed:66:97 media: Ethernet autoselect (none) status: no carrier dhclient reports xl0: no link. giving up Now, if I manually try to switch to BNC media with: # ifconfig xl0 media 10base2/BNC I get: # xl0: selecting AUI media, half-duplex and a kernel panic (trap 12). The BNC cable itself works with another box. More information below. Any help appreciated. Karol uname: FreeBSD 6.1-SECURITY #0: Mon Aug 28 05:21:08 UTC 2006 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 verbose dmesg: xl0: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO Fast Etherlink XL port 0xec00-0xec7f mem 0xfebffc00-0xfebffc7f irq 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 xl0: Reserved 0x80 bytes for rid 0x14 type 3 at 0xfebffc00 xl0: using memory mapped I/O xl0: media options word: 3a xl0: found MII/AUTO miibus0: MII bus on xl0 xlphy0: 3Com internal media interface on miibus0 xlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto xl0: found AUI xl0: found BNC xl0: bpf attached xl0: Ethernet address: 00:04:76:ed:66:97 xl0: [MPSAFE] vmstat -i: interrupt total rate irq0: clk 561773997 irq1: atkbd0 257 0 irq5: rl0 48 0 irq6: fdc011 0 irq8: rtc 71886127 irq10: xl0 3 0 irq14: ata0 2139 3 irq15: ata1 47 0 Total 636164 1129 -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC
[format recovered] On 02/11/2006 21:58, Jeff Mohler wrote: On 11/2/06, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) working with 10base2/BNC? What museum is this in, can we visit it? Sure, where do I send an invitation? Seriously, it should work if the driver included in the kernel supports it, right? Regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC
It...should, its been about I dunno, 1994 since I used one of those tho. It's possible that some code-creep got into the driver that just hasnt been tested for a decade. On 11/2/06, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [format recovered] On 02/11/2006 21:58, Jeff Mohler wrote: On 11/2/06, Karol Kwiatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) working with 10base2/BNC? What museum is this in, can we visit it? Sure, where do I send an invitation? Seriously, it should work if the driver included in the kernel supports it, right? Regards, Karol -- Karol Kwiatkowski freebsd at orchid dot homeunix dot org OpenPGP: http://www.orchid.homeunix.org/carlos/gpg/0x06E09309.asc ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
