svn commit: r190031 - head/etc/defaults

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <20090410.123404.-1398308997.imp at bsdimp.com>
            "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
: In message: <20090409153805.GB83847 at lor.one-eyed-alien.net>
:             Brooks Davis <brooks at FreeBSD.org> writes:
: : Unless you have one of the few interfaces that does not generate
: : link status events, dhclient will be started by devd.  The only ones I
: : know of are a subset set of ed(4) devices, though I think imp may have
: : fixed those recently with a stub ifmedia interface.
: 
: I think ep(4) is the only "common" case left.  For ed(4) we now do the
: right thing for the really old cards (those without a MII) as well as
: the merely old cards (those with a phy).  For the really old cards, we
: generally default to "Link is up all the time" as our status,
: specifically to keep dhclient happy.
: 
: Of course, the number of users of these cards is quite low these
: days...  I've fixed a number of bugs that should have been bad enough
: for people to complain, but since nobody did, I'm guessing the install
: base is smaller than I'd thought...

ep(4) now works for UTP aka 10BaseT.  At least for the 3c589-based
cards (the 3c574-based cards I haven't tested, but should be using the
MII that's there to manage this stuff, but aren't: another rainy day
project).

As a side effect, I dusted off my 3C1 documentation and thought I'd
give it one more try to get working, and I found the magic pixie dust
to sprinkle in...  This makes FreeBSD the only open source OS to
support it, although now that the secret is out, I suspect others will
follow since it is really rather simple...

Warner