Re: xl0 fails to initialize on 2.9 and 3.0 snapshot

[Daryl Pawluk <dpawluk@home.com>]

Daryl Pawluk wrote:

> Daryl Pawluk wrote:
>
>> xl0 fails to initialize on 2.9 and 3.0 snapshot
>>
>> xl0 is a 3COM 3C905B.
>>
>> the mother board is an ASUS P3V4X with a VIA VT82C596B chipset.
>>
>> does anyone have any clue what can be done.
>>
>> 2.8 hung during the first boot after the install unless some 
>> modification to the bios was done during the boot, after which the 
>> 3C905B worked ok. this may be related somehow. i don't remember what 
>> the bios modification consisted of. setting some value to 0 i think.
>>
>> daryl
>>
>>
> actually 2.8 does the same thing. the actual error message is:
>
> xl0: command never completes
>
> ifconfig xl0 says: no carrier
>
> on my Linksys router the Link/Act light is blinking and Full/Col is 
> off. these both should be on solid as well as the 100 light. this 
> setup works fine under Linux and Windows.
>
> daryl
>
>
actually i fixed the problem by setting media to autodetect instead of 
100baseTX when configuring the card during installation. it now works on 
3.0 snapshot. the driver successfully sets the card up for 100baseTX 
during the initailization of the network. the error message during 
booting xl0: command never completed is still there.

daryl