Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1998 20:38:30 +0100 (MET) From: Michael Class <michaelc@bbn.hp.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Chip-Recognition in lnc-driver wrong? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811222037460.652-100000@pc-micha.mc.hp.com>
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Hello,
during the process of setting an old HP Vectra XM2 4/66i (66Mhz 486)
as a firewall with 3.0-current (as of today) I had a problem with
the lance-ethernet driver (lnc).
The Vectra has an integrated AMD 79C970 PCI-Chip an the motherboard.
I checked that it is really this chip on the MB! The lance-driver
seems to recognize this chip as an Am79C965 (VL-Bus) and the further
recognition fails. The interface does not show up if I do an
'ifconfig -a'.
When I change the code in if_lnc.c / pcnet_probe to force the driver
to recognize the chip as 79C970, everything works fine.
Question: Is it possible that the recognition-string for the
79C965 in if_lnc.h (0x2430) is in reality the one for the 79C970
chip? Has anyone a working 79C965 that can be checked, or an other
79C970 that delivers 0x0242 back as id?
Unfortunately I do not have any documentation.
The system works now for me, but I would like to see it working
in the future (if possible) without patches in the kernel.
Thank you
Michael
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