Date: Sat, 6 Nov 1999 22:17:10 -0500 (EST) From: "Stephen J. Roznowski" <sjr@home.net> To: rand@meridian-enviro.com Cc: chapmanb@arches.uga.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ and EEPROM problem Message-ID: <199911070317.WAA01921@cc158233-a.catv1.md.home.com> In-Reply-To: <14371.7160.823862.191340@deneb.meridian-enviro.com>
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On 5 Nov, Douglas K. Rand wrote: > ** Brad Chapman <chapmanb@arches.uga.edu> on Thu, 4 Nov 1999 11:56:50 -0500 (EST) > ** in [Intel EtherExpress PRO/10+ and EEPROM problem] writes: > > Brad> I am trying to install an Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ card on > Brad> FreeBSD 3.3-release and in searching through the -questions > Brad> archive came across your post from February of this year > Brad> concerning the oh-so-annoying error "Board's EEPROM is > Brad> Configured for IRQ 0, using 9." As you hinted to in your posts, > Brad> everything looks okay for me if I run "ifconfig -a" (ie. it > Brad> shows that ex0 is up and has the ip that I gave it) but I'm not > Brad> having any luck connecting externally to a cable modem. My > Brad> kernel config for it looks like: "device ex0 at isa? port? net > Brad> irq 9," so I've only set my irq (which I verified was free) and > Brad> left everything else to autodetect. > > Sounds exactly like you have a new Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ card > with one of the new hardware addresses. Unfortunately, the ex driver > uses the hardware address to decide if the card is a Pro/10 or a > Pro/10+, and I'm not capable of coming up with a better solution. So I > just added the check for an Ethernet address prefix of 00:90:27 in > addition to the existin check of a 00:A0:C9 prefix. There is already a bug report: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=8567 that claims to do a better job of identifying the Pro/10+ card. You might want to give the patch in the PR a try. -SR To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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