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Date:      Thu, 22 Aug 2002 18:34:22 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <garyj@jennejohn.org>
To:        Ross Lippert <ripper@eskimo.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: toshiba satellite LAN card with funny chip id 10598086 
Message-ID:  <200208221634.g7MGYMok005121@peedub.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 22 Aug 2002 09:13:09 PDT." <200208221613.JAA05971@eskimo.com> 

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Ross Lippert writes:
> 
> Hi, I am trying to install 4.6 on the above laptop which is a toshiba
> satellite 1405-S151 (to be specific).  The biggest pain so far is that the
> onboard LAN does not seem to be seen.
> 
> I checked pciconf -l
> 
> and found it to be a none@pci:0:10:0 with chip id 10598086.
> 
> Pulling out my trusty pci index, I found that the 1059 maps to intel's (8086)
>    82551QM Ethernet Controller
> which, from what I can tell on the specs at intel should behave just like a
>    82559 [Ethernet Pro 100]
> which has an id of 12298086.
> 
> I remember once I figured out how to make a hack to the pci sources of
> the kernel to make a pci device with a funny uid get detected as
> something with a known uid (I did this for a funky sound-blaster pci
> card months ago), however, time is short, and I really have forgotten
> what I need to hack on to do this.
> 
> Can someone offer me some guidance?  Also, if anyone has any experience with
> this brand of toshiba, I'd welcome other input, but this ethernet thing will
> either make or break any chance of getting FreeBSD working right on it.
> 

Just edit if_fxp.c and replace 0x1229 with 0x1059. There's only
one place in the file where the change is required.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de


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