From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 31 16:35:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA00843 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:35:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA00836; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:35:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA01800; Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:31:06 GMT (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199808311631.QAA01800@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: chad@dcfinc.com cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul), stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for feedback on xl (3c905/3c905B) driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:07:03 MST." <199808312207.PAA18113@freebie.dcfinc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:31:06 +0000 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Glorioski! No network! The new kernel, supped as of Aug 25, no longer > saw my vx0 device. In fact, it didn't even probe for it. The date on > ../sys/pci/if_vx_pci.c is Aug 24th. Coincidence? > > So my choice was to try to fall back to a prior kernel and figure out > what got broken, or to march onward. I chose the latter. I edited my > kernel config file to change "device vx0" to "device xl0", edited > /etc/rc.conf to change "vx" references to "xl". Then rebuilt the kernel > and rebooted. > > As you can tell, I'm back on the net. But has anyone chased down what > happened to the vx driver? There can only be one driver claim a device; when the 'xl' driver was added, the 'vx' driver had to be changed to not claim the devices that were taken over. PCI drivers don't "probe for" devices; they are effectively passively triggered by the presence of the device. You won't see any noise at all from a PCI driver unless the device(s) it supports are present. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message