Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:25:49 -0400 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Michael Gass <mgass@unix.csbsju.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel wants the wrong driver for my NIC (new issue) Message-ID: <200906200223.n5K2NYPB005549@lava.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <20090619230802.GA5795@unix.csbsju.edu> References: <20090619172429.GA5197@unix.csbsju.edu> <20090619230802.GA5795@unix.csbsju.edu>
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At 07:08 PM 6/19/2009, Michael Gass wrote:
>I am still confused about the rl driver not working for this
>card. The NOTES in /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES explicitly state
>that the rl driver is for the DFE-530TX+ and that the vr
>driver is for the DFE-530TX.
The manufacturer could have changed chipsets and didnt change model
numbers. Its certainly not unprecedented. Or the wrong NIC could
have been sold to you by accident.
>I made a new kernel without the vr driver and the result was
>that no driver at all was recognized for the NIC.
>Is there a way to force the kernel to put an entry in /dev
>for rl0 so that I could try to configue it for the NIC?
Its a vr nic. Fiddling with the PCI ids of the drivers, will not
make it work. i.e. changing the device IDs that the rl attaches to
and removing it from the vr.
---Mike
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