Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2007 13:40:39 +0100 From: Lars Tunkrans <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> To: Blake Meike <bmeike@speakeasy.net> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD ethernet on a Sun Ultra 20 Message-ID: <45E183C7.7040904@bredband.net> In-Reply-To: <00EE2F1E-CE3C-4124-936C-9F8D5B543468@speakeasy.net> References: <00EE2F1E-CE3C-4124-936C-9F8D5B543468@speakeasy.net>
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Yes, Im not surprised really,
New PCI DEVICE ID's is used all the time. The "Sun Ultra 20 M2" is
just a few months old.
Its a new motherboard compared to the "Sun Ultra20" which has been
around for a year and is already obsolete.
Maybe the real question is:
When any new Motherboard is evaluated for compatability, do we
have a list of which PCI Device ID's
the current FreeBSD devicedrivers support ?
I am a bit rusty on FreeBSD presently , having worked mostly with
OpenSolaris for the last year.
On Solaris10/OpenSolaris a file called /etc/driver_aliases is
created which contains all the known PCI-DEVICE ID's
known by the software ( devicedrivers ).
Then when you perform a pciscan you can evaluate whether the
hardware you actually have has PCIDevice codes
unkown to the device-drivers.
FreeBSD has a very good list of supported Hardware that details
which chipsets are supported.
Maybe this list now needs to be enhanced with the PCI device codes, as
a device with the same generic name apperantly
now can have several PCI Device codes.
Regards
//Lars
Blake Meike wrote:
> I've had some trouble getting the ethernet ports on my shiny new Sun
> Ultra 20 to show up under FreeBSD 6.2. Although this seems like an
> obvious configuration, it required some digging around, and the
> kindness of strangers to get it to work.
>
> There is now a thread at
>
> http://www.bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=47766
>
> that shows how to get it to work. Please pardon the cross posting.
>
> Blake Meike
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