Bug 21642

Summary: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 card (TI Thunder Lan (TLAN) chip) does not work for AppleTalk protocol
Product: Base System Reporter: naoyuki_tai <naoyuki_tai>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.1-STABLE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description naoyuki_tai 2000-09-29 06:00:01 UTC 
 Compaq Netelligent (TLAN) device tl card does not work with (at least) NBP protocol
 netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 is running.

 /dev/tl0 is configured and works fine with TCP/IP as 100Base-T Full dupe with a 100BT switch.
 /dev/tl0 does not work at all.
 nbplkup only shows the locals with tl?.

 I replaced 100Base-T switch with 10Base-T hub but the result was same -- TCP works fine and AppleTalk does not.

 I tried /dev/vx (Vortex 3COM PCI 10Base-T), /dev/rl (RealTek 8159), Linksys LNE100TX so far.
All else work fine with same software, same hardware and same network setting.

 Since NBP is not coming out from /dev/tl?, I can not see the AppleShare server.
 FreeBSD can not see any of other AppleTalk devices on the net either.

Fix: 

Buy a new ethernet (non Thunder Lan) card.
 (But, yes, it would be nice if it got fixed.)
How-To-Repeat:  Install 4.1-STABLE.
 Install Compaq Netelligennt card. (Many Compaq machine come
with this card anyway.)
 Install netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3.
 Set up netatalk and run it.
 Connect any other AppleTalk device to the network.
 run nbplkup. It does not show any other AppleTalk device such as other Macs or AppleTalk enabled printers.
Comment 1 winter 2000-09-29 19:52:13 UTC 
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 naoyuki_tai@mac.com wrote:
> I tried /dev/vx (Vortex 3COM PCI 10Base-T), /dev/rl (RealTek 8159),
> Linksys LNE100TX so far. All else work fine with same software, same
> hardware and same network setting.

I can only assume that you're configuring the ThunderLan board for the
wrong duplex or something because I have had no problems with that card
and netatalk.

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Comment 2 iedowse freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-17 14:21:28 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback


Does this problem still exist with more recent releases?
Comment 3 iedowse 2001-11-18 20:28:18 UTC 
Adding this to the audit trail.

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Message-ID: <3BF68C12.3000609@mac.com>
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 11:10:58 -0500
From: Naoyuki Tai <naoyuki_tai@mac.com>
To: iedowse@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: kern/21642: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 card (TI Thunder Lan (TLAN) chip) does not work for AppleTalk protocol

iedowse@FreeBSD.org wrote:

>Synopsis: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 card (TI Thunder Lan (TLAN) chip) does not work for AppleTalk protocol
>
>State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
>State-Changed-By: iedowse
>State-Changed-When: Sat Nov 17 06:21:28 PST 2001
>State-Changed-Why: 
>
>Does this problem still exist with more recent releases?
>
>http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=21642
>
 Yes, it does.

 I tried with 4.3 release, and netatalk did not work while other
network server software such as NFS and SAMBA worked.

 Upon replacing the TLan card with 3com 905, netatalk worked again.

 If you want, I am happy to ship the TLan card to you.

 However, I would like to reiterate that, the problem is not worth fixing.
 Please use your time on something more useful. Buying an different
ethernet card is far more practical than you spending time to fix it.
 But, if someone else sees the same problem, probably, it is useful
to know that replacing card may fix the problem.

- -- ntai@mac.com, Naoyuki "Tai" Tai




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Comment 4 iedowse freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-11-18 20:31:06 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->open


This problem still exists.
Comment 5 George V. Neville-Neil freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2006-11-12 09:20:38 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

This bug is 6 years old, the hardware is no longer available 
and the OS is no longer supported.