Bug 17636

Summary: FreeBSD 4 uses network card driver dc where de is needed
Product: Base System Reporter: jay.krell <jay.krell>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description jay.krell 2000-03-28 13:10:00 UTC 
I was using FreeBDS 3.x (3.3-RELEASE and 3.4-RELEASE worked, not sure I got 3.2-RELEASE configured, 3.4-STABLE panicced often. These were all GENERIC kernels, once the panics started I gave up on building my own kernel). My network card was de0, and it worked. I think it is a Digital 21143, in a Compaq Presario  5600i.

Upon upgrading to 4.0-Stable, the network card stopped working.
Upon investigation I found that the driver now claiming it (in still a GENERIC kernel) was dc, not de, which has the same description in the config file, except that it uses the mii shared bus or somesuch.

Fix: 

Don't use GENERIC kernel, where 3.x GENERIC worked fine. Configure the dc driver out of the kernel, and de ends up taking it fine.
How-To-Repeat: Get an Intel 21143 or whatever it is I have. Install FreeBSD 4.0 and/or upgrade to 4.0-Stable.
Comment 1 jay.krell 2000-04-09 04:46:40 UTC 
This sounds like it might be the same as
kern/17829 : The dc driver is seriously broken
Comment 2 Mike Barcroft freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-07-22 01:56:11 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed


Superseded by PR: kern/17829