Re: Heads up: NEWCARD is coming

[Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

:Both Silicom cards are dc0 under FreeBSD 5.x. 10Mbps dc card works out 
:of the box while 100Mbps card has problems with auto detection of media. 
:  If I manually set it to 100Mbps full-duplex it works fine. Without 
:that it does not discover link.
:
:3Com card is xl0 device.
:
:I will happily test any patches if needed.
:
:Thanks!
:
:Tomaz
 
    DCx cards will probably always have problems with auto-detection of
    media.  It was broken from day one and it doesn't look like the vendor
    ever fixed it.  I would stay away from that chipset.

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>