Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 06:18:31 GMT From: Arthur Hartwig <Arthur.Hartwig@nokia.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: docs/94125: DGE-530T doesn't work on FreeBSD v6.0 Message-ID: <200603060618.k266IVKj095470@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200603060620.k266K3GL067416@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 94125 >Category: docs >Synopsis: DGE-530T doesn't work on FreeBSD v6.0 >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Mar 06 06:20:03 GMT 2006 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Arthur Hartwig >Release: v6.0 >Organization: Nokia >Environment: FreeBSD oz-net-13.nes.nokia.com 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Tue Jan 31 14:47:03 EST 2006 dplasto@oz-net-13.nes.nokia.com:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/NEW i386 >Description: I bought a D-Link DGE-530T because the documentation (http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.0R/hardware-i386.html) said it was supported and supported by the sk driver. (Not that I really cared which driver supported it.) However my DGE-530T is unrecognised by the sk driver. The PCI vendor id of the DGE-530T I have is 0x1186 (D-Link) and the device id is 0x4b01 whereas the sk driver expects the device id of the DGE-530T to be 0x4c00. The cardboard box my DGE-530T came in said "H/W Ver: B1" Perhaps the H/W Ver could be used to distinguish "supported" DGE-530Ts from unsupported DGE-530Ts. D-Link seem to acquired a bit of a reputation in the Linux wireless world (see e.g. section 4 of http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Jean_Tourrilhes/Linux/Linux.Wireless.usage.html ) of using a variety of chip types in products with the same model number, making it quite difficult to identify a device that is really supported. Perhaps they have adopted the same unfortunate practice with their LAN cards. The sk man page also says the D-Link DGE-530T is supported by the sk driver, without making any mention that not all DGE-530-Ts have the same chip and therefore not all DGE-530Ts are supported by the sk driver. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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