Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 12:01:09 +0200 From: "Paul B. Mahol" <onemda@gmail.com> To: Michael Gass <mgass@unix.csbsju.edu> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kernel wants the wrong driver for my NIC (new issue) Message-ID: <3a142e750906200301p28018687p16fae7d4bb767f1f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090619230802.GA5795@unix.csbsju.edu> References: <20090619172429.GA5197@unix.csbsju.edu> <20090619230802.GA5795@unix.csbsju.edu>
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On 6/20/09, Michael Gass <mgass@unix.csbsju.edu> wrote: > On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:24:29PM -0500, Michael Gass wrote: >> I'm running 7.2-stable and I replaced an old ISA NIC with >> a D-Link DFE-530TX+ card. According to the manual, the >> correct driver for this card is rl driver. The kernel >> insists on using the vr driver which is for the DFE-530TX. >> >From what I can tell, the two cards have different chipsets >> and so the drivers are not compatable. >> > > I got the vr driver to work: it was an IRQ issue. Seems > sio1 wanted irq 3 which is what vr0 was taking. Somehow that > caused a problem. > > BUT > > 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. I have the former and so should > be using the rl drive it seems. Is this a mistake in the > documentation (including the man page for each driver)? > > 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? Yes, modify source code and recompile and reinstall/kldload kernel/module. -- Paul
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