Re: Question about network card

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

My day job deals with Wired Ethernet at vendor ID 8086.

If you look at pciids.sourceforge.net you'll notice that you're talking
about a USB host controller and two PCIe root ports.

Have you tried booting Linux to see what it sees?

On Wed, 29 Aug 2012, Jason Mitchell wrote:

> Konrad,
>
>    It's easy enough to try a current kernel temporarily. The ftp site 
> nyftp.netbsd.org contains current images that are built every night. You 
> didn't mention your platform, but if it's i386, then this kernel will work:
>
> ftp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/HEAD/201208280330Z/i386/binary/kernel/netbsd-MONOLITHIC.gz
>
>    Place this kernel in the root of your filesystem and interrupt the boot 
> loader, then issue the command:
>
> boot netbsd-MONOLITHIC.gz
>
> That should tell you whether current supports your second NIC or not.
>
> Jason M.
>
> On 08/28/2012 09:27 AM, Konrad Neuwirth wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > we're configuring NetBSD on a Supermicro X9SCM-F mainboard, that supposedly 
> > contains two NICs.
> >
> > Alas, NetBSD 5.1 does only recognize on of them; for the other, all I see 
> > in dmesg is:
> >
> > | hci0 at pci0 dev 26 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x1c2d (rev. 0x05)
> > | ehci0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 16
> > | ehci0: EHCI version 1.0
> > | usb0 at ehci0: USB revision 2.0
> > | ppb1 at pci0 dev 28 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x1c10 (rev. 0xb5)
> > | ppb1: unsupported PCI Express version
> > | pci2 at ppb1 bus 2
> > | pci2: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
> > | ppb2 at pci0 dev 28 function 4: vendor 0x8086 product 0x1c18 (rev. 0xb5)
> > | ppb2: unsupported PCI Express version
> > | pci3 at ppb2 bus 3
> > | pci3: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, wr/inv ok
> >
> > Is there any chance that this would be running under -current, or are there 
> > things I could do to make it run? I'd rather not insert another pci card 
> > into the machine, but require two seperate NICs.
> >
> > Thank you,
> >   Konrad

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