DC driver real slow on 5.4/alpha 4100

[Bill Harris]

That was the first thing I tried.   I'm afraid somehow I've
caused the card to get into a non-functional state.   Tried switching
ports on my switch, unplugging, ifconfig down/up   changed from 10/100
and back.    I'm hoping that powering it down and leaving it all day
without network cable will let it reset.   Dunno.

What I'm worried about is those cards are hard to find, and what
other cards does FBSD support in the Alpha 4100, if this card is toast?


Bill


On Jul 21, 2005, at 9:18 AM, Bernd Walter wrote:

> On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:14:45AM -0500, Bill Harris wrote:
>> Bernd,
>>
>> I have an identical AS4100 at home (my office heater) and had
>> put 5.4 on it last week.   It also shows to be using a dc driver, the
>> same DE500 card.
>>
>> Well, I think I've screwed my home server up this morning.  It's
>> connected to a Linksys 10/100 switch, and it had been running
>> fine under 10baseT/half.
>>
>> I decided to try and switch it to 100, through a telnet session 
>> (should
>> have not been a problem) and the card has locked up.   I tried to set
>> the card (now from the console) to auto-negiotiate, but nothing.  No
>> lights at all on the card.
>>
>> I've unplugged switch, card, power down, rebooted, but my network
>> card is dead.  It still shows succesfully probed in the dmesg, showing
>> the mac address and all, but it's interface is DOWN and won't come 
>> back
>> online or show any LED's.
>>
>> Having to leave for work after this fine piece of experimentation, I
>> unplugged
>> everything, turned power off on the server and left.
>>
>> Any ideas how I might rescue/reset my card?  What are some options?
>
> You might have success with ifconfig down/up.
>
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