Nick Holland [mailto:nickholland-consulting.net]:
> >
> > I have one of these horrible Netvin N5000 nics (Realtek
> 8029?) which is
> > detected as ne3 on irq 5. I understand that I need to set
> the card's media
> > type manually before it will work on OpenBSD.
>
> More accurately, the card has to be set to the media you will be
> using. It isn't an OpenBSD thing, really...just something you need to
> do before you expect the card to work with your network.
>
> > I've found a utility on
> > Realtek's site which allows some parameters on the eeprom
> to be modified,
> > but not the actual media type itself. Before I bin it, does
> anyone know
> > where I can find a tool to fix this card for OpenBSD?
>
> MOST of the RT8029 (PCI) NICs started auto-detecting, and unless your
> card has lived a somewhat unusual life, it probably still is. Plug it
> in and try it.
>
> If this is an ISA card (RT8019), I have a collection of NE2000
> configuration programs, left over from when a NIC was a major
> investment. 8-) If you want to try a few, let me know in private
> mail, but first just try the card...many of the 8019 cards were also
> auto-detecting, and hopefully, yours got left in a state your machine
> can use.
>
> hmmm....just looked at 'man 4 ne'... RT8019 and RT8029 actually
> support various media. If that's what you have, you don't even need
> to worry about it.

Hi Nick, thanks for your offer of a config program, but unfortunately for
me, this is definitely a PCI card. The ne manual page says if auto-detection
is supported then a list of supported media will be displayed. That doesn't
happen for me and I cannot coax ifconfig to set a media type - ifconfig ne3
just reports "media: Ethernet manual". For whatever reason, it looks as
though autodetection is not working under (or is not a feature of) OpenBSD
and this particular card.

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