From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 10:10:28 -0600 From: "Ronald G. Minnich" To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Intel 8254[17] and switches In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Topicbox-Message-UUID: 3aee6e44-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On Sat, 16 Apr 2005, Brantley Coile wrote: > After a couple of weeks banging my head on the wall, I discover that the > PXE firmware on the things can't even drive 1GbE. I couldn't find any > mention of this fact in anything from Intel, unless one of the erata's > on a sheet I got states this fact in an obscure way. PXE firmware is shit. I would be willing to be they forward-ported their eepro-100 firmware and made it just barely work on the new chips. you know, it has happened before that a vendor will connect up the traces backwards from chip to connector. The result is the kind of thing you are seeing. It kind of works, but it doesn't work. Honestly, you'll see data move, but you'll see a lot of problems too. Any chance that is the case here? I think those chips should really be fine. I can't imaging going to broadcom from those parts. ron