Re: missing driver problem

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

Hi Gerard,

Thanks for the clarification - such distinctions are non-obvious to us
mere users (rather than developers).   I now at least have an Ethernet
connection, and I think maybe even USB3.0, but there are still several
"not configured" messages in the dmesg output, not all of which are
ACPI-related. so I guess it's time to get the sources....

thanks,

--
Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> At date and time Mon, 4 Aug 2014 16:08:48 +0100 (BST), Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Thanks for pursuing this.   I downloaded an ISO image of 6.1.4, and
> > installed from DVD.   I can see the same "not configured" messages in
> > the hardware probe phase of the initial load from DVD.    Is it
> > possible that the standard 6.1.4 kernel is somehow configured
> > differently?
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> as I understand it Masanobu is saying the ethernet driver is in -current
> and netbsd-6, but not in netbsd-6-1-4.
> 
> You can get a recent build of netbsd-6 here:
> 
> http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/builds.cgi
> 
> netbsd-6 is what you are looking for, not netbsd 6-0 or netbsd-6-1, and
> not netbsd-6-0-6 or netbsd-6-1-4.
> 
> At some point this netbsd-6 branch will be branched to the formal
> release netbsd-6-2, which from then on will receive only security and
> bug fixes. The netbsd-6 branch meanwhile will continue to receive
> *updates* as well as security fixes and bug fixes, and it will be
> eventually branched to netbsd-6-3.
> 
> Masanobu's reply is excerpted below:
> 
> > > This is I217V
> > > 
> > >  From pcidevs:
> > > > product INTEL I217_V            0x153b  I217-V Ethernet Connection
> > > 
> > >  From if_wm.c
> > > >         { PCI_VENDOR_INTEL,     PCI_PRODUCT_INTEL_I217_V,
> > > >           "I217 V Ethernet Connection",
> > > 
> > > The entry exists in both -current and netbsd-6...
> 
> -- 
> Gerard Lally
> 
>