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Date:      Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:44:40 +0400
From:      "Yuriy Tsibizov" <Yuriy.Tsibizov@gfk.ru>
To:        "John-Mark Gurney" <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: ASUS U5F hangs during pci bus probe
Message-ID:  <78664C02FF341B4FAC63E561846E3BCC01F8CC@ex.hhp.local>
In-Reply-To: <20061019072914.GP23971@funkthat.com>

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> > Just checked it today morning - it cannot start Ethernet=20
> adapter after
> > last reboot...
> > It lists it in POST message, but
> > 1) don't start PXE firmware
> > 2) can't see it with pre-installed Windows (It show unknown=20
> Ethernet,
> > with vendor 10ec dev 8129 subsys 812911ec revision 01).=20
> It's PCI express
> > network card, according to POST message.
> > 3) link is active
> >=20
> > I have two more noteboks (same model),  but don't want to kill their
> > Ethernet adapters.
>=20
> So, are you saying that after using the fixed patch, booting into
> FreeBSD (getting to login), that the Windows no longer attached to the
> on board ethernet adapter?  Considering that this patch doesn't even
> touch the read-write data, I can't imagine it breaking=20
> something, unless
> the driver and other code can't handle the VPD registers=20
> being touched...
> But if that's the case, then the Windows driver needs to be=20
> fixed since
> there are no guaranties what the VPD registers will be...

how can THIS change?
(it's a diff against other ASUS U5F notebook)

--- good-pciconf        2006-10-19 14:36:53.135431000 +0400
+++ broken-pciconf      2006-10-19 14:36:37.619607400 +0400
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@
 atapci0@pci0:31:2:     class=3D0x010180 card=3D0x12671043 =
chip=3D0x27c48086
rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00
     class    =3D mass storage
     subclass =3D ATA
-re0@pci1:0:0:  class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x11f51043 chip=3D0x816810ec =
rev=3D0x01
hdr=3D0x00
+rl0@pci1:0:0:  class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x812911ec chip=3D0x812910ec =
rev=3D0x01
hdr=3D0x00
     class    =3D network
     subclass =3D ethernet
 none1@pci2:0:0:        class=3D0x028000 card=3D0x10018086 =
chip=3D0x42228086
rev=3D0x02 hdr=3D0x00

verbose dmes & pciconf are available from
http://chibis.persons.gfk.ru/vpd/

Yuriy.




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