Revert the revert. Naturally, I considered OpenBSD and FreeBSD when I fixed
the incorrect use of the spl*() interface. The change I made is _required_
for both NetBSD _and_ OpenBSD, or the code won't even COMPILE except on
i386, and it is acceptable on FreeBSD. Your revert and mod rebroke it on
OpenBSD and tangled things up on NetBSD. It made no difference on FreeBSD.
In particular, there are 2,895 uses of splx() within the FreeBSD kernel,
and only a mere 21, that's "twenty one" uses of intrmask_t, and those are
almost exclusively in the guts of the interrupt implementation, _not_ in
the _use_ of the exported spl*() functions. It's perfectly OK to `int s
= spltty()' in a portable driver in FreeBSD.
For that matter, FreeBSD (-current at least) does not even *use* spl*()
any more and stubs them all out with inlines that do _nothing_ except return
0, making intrmask_t vs int _even less_ important there than it already
was.
I think it's great that you want to start hacking on the kernel, but do
note that this is certainly the most simple of the kernel interfaces. It
just gets worse from here. Be careful out there!
- Set the destination address register properly for "perfect match" mode
in the receive filter setup.
- Do not enable multicast receipt unless we are configured for some multicast.
- Use the "recommended settings" (which set undocumented registers and
documented-as-reserved fields) for the silicon revision 302h (not 203h,
as documented in one of the two places in the manual) because the
documentation is unclear and because those settings fix the card's
behavior in "perfect match" mode. Without those settings, the card
was generating random CRC/invalid symbol errors and generally not
working unless it was set to be promiscuous.
With these changes, this week's version of the Netgear FA311 works for me.
soren