Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2005 18:17:36 -0700 From: Nick Triantos <nick-gmane@triantos.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking? Message-ID: <42630AB0.2090500@triantos.com> In-Reply-To: <4262F8D4.2040205@daleco.biz> References: <d3uqbn$vnt$2@sea.gmane.org> <4262F8D4.2040205@daleco.biz>
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D'oh, you're right, the i915 is the graphics chip (I think, technically,
it's the whole northbridge. Intel is damn unclear about what functions
are in each chip.
The Win XP drivers list the ethernet as "Intel(R) PRO/100 VE"
PCI ID: vendor = 8086
dev = 1068
subsys = 81d0104d
rev = 03
The marketing page about this platform is here:
http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2005/volume09issue01/intro/p05_new_components.htm
though it's quite substance-free. :-|
I'll keep hunting for what could be going wrong, but any further
pointers welcome!
thanks all,
-Nick
Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> Nick Triantos wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on
>> Intel's Sonoma platform. This includes the Intel i915
>> chipset. I'm looking for ethernet (not wireless) drivers
>> for it, the fxp driver reluctantly loads, but doesn't
>> recognize that there's a compatible card in my system.
>>
>>
>
> Isn't the i915 the graphics chipset? What is known about
> the NIC portion of this board? What shows up in dmesg?
>
> <snip>
>
>> root# kldstat
>> Id Refs Address Size Name
>> ...
>> 4 1 0xc1f23000 8000 if_fxp.ko
>>
>> However, ifconfig does not show an interface to this
>> card (it shows lo0 and fwe0, which I think is the firewire ethernet
>> driver).
>>
>
> It is.
>
>> Any clues? It looks like a fix has been applied to the fxp driver,
>> in time for rel 5.3, that should have added alviso chip support. Maybe
>> I'm missing some other core logic driver, I really don't know.
>
>
>
> Hmm, what are you referring to here?
>
> IANAE, so please hang on in case someone (who likely isn't sitting
> at their desk on a Sunday afternoon) knowledgeable comes along;
> however, I see no mention of "i915" either in the manpage for fxp(4),
> nor can I grep "Alviso" or "i915" in any files under /src/sys/pci or
> /src/sys/net. Google doesn't turn up much, either.
>
> The thing is pretty new, so I'd wonder if it's supported. You can
> definitely take a look at the HCL at the website. I'll hope for your
> sake it is --- like I said, IANAE. But, I do wonder...
>
> Kevin Kinsey
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