Re: AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet driver issues in 5.3RC1 / 5.3-STABLE

quoting Daniel Engberg <diizzy_at_telia.com>:

> quoting David O'Brien <obrien_at_freebsd.org>:
>
> > On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 12:06:26AM +0200, Daniel Engberg wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > Currently I'm running 5.3-RC1 / 5.3-STABLE and it seems like this
> > > version have issues with AMD PCnet/PCI Fast Ethernet NICs. The driver
> > > (pcn) loads and detects the NIC properly without any errors but the
> > > interface is unable to trasmit or receive any data. A workaround
(not a
> > > very nice one afaik), is to recompile the kernel and leave out the pcn
> > > driver. By doing so FreeBSD will use the old lnc driver instead which
> > > works. Any ideas what's causing this behaviour?
> > > I'm using "FreeBSD BOX.BUNDLE 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #1:
Thu Oct
> > > 21 17:55:29 CEST 2004".
> >
> > What is the dmesg output for this device?  Several of my machines have
> > pcn(4) devices:
> >
> >     pcn0: <AMD PCnet/PCI 10/100BaseTX>
> >
> > with zero problems.
> >
> > --
> > -- David  (obrien_at_FreeBSD.org)
> >
>
> Hi, the dmesg output is the following.
> pcn0: <AMD PCnet/PCI 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe400-0xe41f mem
> 0xe2001000-0xe200101f irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
> miibus0: <MII bus> on pcn0
> lxtphy0: <LXT970 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
> lxtphy0:  100baseFX, 100baseFX-FDX, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX,
> 100baseTX-FDX, audio
> pcn0: Ethernet address: 00:60:b0:eb:c3:c6
> pcn0: if_start running deferred for Giant
> pcn0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> //Danne
> 

If it's to any help the nics (I have two) says AM79C971KC on the network
chip and I also made a typo in my previous post, audio should be auto.
//Danne