From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 28 16: 9:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D8A437B629 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:09:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA21237; Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:01:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200003290001.QAA21237@implode.root.com> To: Milon Papezik Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Onboard Intel NIC In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:55:52 +0200." <38E14688.397488E2@oskarmobil.cz> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:01:52 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >The only thing remaining is that the card is reported as >Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B (which used to have i82557), >but it's a card with i82559. > >This can be detected by reading the revision code of >integrated PHY (registers 2 and 3) through MDI in CSR space >(pg. 87 in i82559 datasheet or pg. 67 for i82559ER). > >The value is different for i82558 and i82559[ER]. >It is 0x02A8:0150 for i82558 and 0x02A8:0154 for both 82559 >and i82559ER. > >Do you plan to change/improve the card/chipset >reporting mechanism? I wasn't planning to in the short term, but I'd be happy to review some patches for it! :-) -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message