Subject: Re: Re: Serious concerns about NetBSD on Intel Mainboards
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Daniel Cox <danielcox@myrealbox.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 02/16/2005 09:02:29
#pcictl /dev/pci1 list (in this case, no NIC on pci0)
001:01:0: Intel 82557 Fast Ethernet LAN Controller (ethernet network, revis=
ion 0x08)
001:08:0: Intel 82801EB/ER 10/100 Ethernet (ethernet network, revision 0x02=
)

#dmesg shows:
fxp1 at pci1 dev 8 function 0: Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5) Network Controller, =
rev 2
fxp1: interrupting at irq 5
fxp1: Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:00:00
ukphy0 at fxp1 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
ukphy0: i82562ET 10/100 media interface (OUI 0x005500, model 0x0033), rev. =
0
ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

From DOS: ibacfg shows the ID: 0x1051 (was 1050), MAC Address: FFFFFFFF0000
and ibautil says no Flash present, although I am not sure what that bit use=
d to say.

Thanks,
Daniel.


-----Original Message-----
From: David Maxwell <david@vex.net>
To: Daniel Cox <danielcox@myrealbox.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:30:20 -0500
Subject: Re: Serious concerns about NetBSD on Intel Mainboards

On Wed, 16 Feb 2005, Daniel Cox wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> I recently sent this (archived) message to netbsd-users: http://mail-inde=
x.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2005/02/09/0001.html
> 
> Summary: 1.6.2_stable from 12Jun04 has tried to disable a feature on my o=
nboard Intel NIC (without any form of prompt or warning) and made the NIC=
 effectively useless.
> 
> Maybe I sent to the wrong list? 
> I have not received any response or been able to work out how to fix the =
broken EEPROM. So far Intel has not provided me with anything useful eith=
er

As discussed in the thread you referenced - is your card still detected
on the pci bus, just with the wrong device ID?

What does 'pcictl /dev/pci0 list ' say?

Perhaps Peter Fors could contribute his code to dump the EEPROM data,
and we'll see what yours currently contains.

-- 
David Maxwell, david@vex.net|david@maxwell.net -->
Any sufficiently advanced Common Sense will seem like magic... 
=09=09=09=09=09      - me