Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 16:31:06 +0000 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> 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 Message-ID: <199808311631.QAA01800@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 31 Aug 1998 15:07:03 MST." <199808312207.PAA18113@freebie.dcfinc.com>
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> 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-stable" in the body of the message
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