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From: Paolo Pisati <p.pisati@oltrelinux.com>
To: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com>
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Subject: Re: network card not probed
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:09:21AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote:
[snip]
> 	and loading if_de.ko by hand produced the following:
> 
> de0: <Digital 21140 Fast Ethernet> port 0xa000
> -0xa07f mem 0xef800000-0xef80007f irq 14 at device 11.0 on pci0
> de0: ZNYX ZX34X 21140 [10-100Mb/s] pass 1.1
> de0: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
> de0: Ethernet address: 00:c0:95:f8:17:af
> de0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> de0: [ITHREAD]
> 
> 	The machine is running (I added the necessary line to
> loader.conf), but I'd like to eliminate user error before filing a
> PR.

if the kernel didn't complain about duplicate symbols, it means
you didn't have if_de compiled in your kernel.

> 	So: tracked down the "if_watchdog", no problem, but can't find
> anything on the "[ITHREAD]" /per se/.

it's just a message saying "the handler for this NIC runs
in the ithread context", part of the interrupt filtering
commit.

> 	And what has changed to make the card invisible?

i guess something about module loading...

bye,
P.