From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 5 18:38:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from ind.alcatel.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2A214EE0 for ; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:38:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com (mailhub [198.206.181.70]) by ind.alcatel.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.1 (ind.alcatel.com 3.0 [OUT])) with SMTP id SAA15278; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:38:50 -0800 (PST) X-Origination-Site: Received: from omni.xylan.com by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id SAA24569; Sun, 5 Dec 1999 18:38:50 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com ([204.68.178.39]) by omni.xylan.com (4.1/SMI-4.1 (xylan engr [SPOOL])) id AA22557; Sun, 5 Dec 99 18:38:47 PST Message-Id: <384B21D1.415FD524@softweyr.com> Date: Sun, 05 Dec 1999 19:39:13 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en Mime-Version: 1.0 To: Mohit Aron Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: new Intel 100Mbps card References: <199912052313.RAA21154@cs.rice.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Mohit Aron wrote: > > Hi, > I got some new Intel 10/100Mbps network interfaces recently, but > unfortunately found that FreeBSD (version 4.0-19990827-CURRENT) doesn't > recognize them. These are called the "Intel InBusiness 10/100 PCI Network > Adaptor". Unfortunately, these are the only ones supported in the stores now, > so I can't find the older 10/100+ and 10/100B kind. > > After looking at the boot messages, I found that these cards have a device_id > of 0x1030 - which is different than the one supported by the fxp driver in > FreeBSD (0x1229 - defined in /sys/pci/if_fxpreg.h as FXP_DEVICEID_i82557). It's probably an 82558 chip. Does it support Wake-on-LAN? > I changed the driver (fxp_probe() function in /sys/pci/if_fxp.c) to also > recognize the device_id 0x1030. The cards now work, but I haven't stress tested > them for performance. > > Can someone tell me if the fxp driver is compatible with these cards (at least > it seems to work). If so, it'll be nice if the future releases of the driver > also support this card. Add the device IDs to the list in the driver and recompile. If it works, send me the diffs and I'll commit it for you. I might even be able to beat one of the cards out of Intel, I used to work for the InBusiness (formerly Dayna Communications) crowd. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message