Re: Intel device issues...

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

phil%NetBSD.org@localhost (Phil Nelson) writes:

>    I've ended up with a new Dell Optiplex 7040 in my office
>and I'm trying to get NetBSD going on it.   If found that NetBSD
>-current (7.99.26) is not recognizing several PCI "products" which includes
>the USB hub and the ethernet.   I was wondering if anyone knows
>whether I should just add the product IDs to the existing drivers,
>(and if so, which drivers) or do I need a new driver?

>   The devices are:

>   vendor 8086 product a12f (USB serial bus, xHCI, revision 0x31)

that's USB3.0 and "should" be recognized by the experimental xhci driver.
It's not enabled by default, you need to build a custom kernel with

xhci* at pci? dev ? function ?        # eXtensible Host Controller

but even then you can't use it for USB3.0 (but only USB2.0) if it
works at all.


The next three are pretty unknown:

>   vendor 8086 product a131 (miscellaneous DASP, revision 0x31)
Thermal subsystem

>   vendor 8086 product a13a (miscellaneous communications, revision 0x31)
CSME HECI (communication controller?)

>   vendor 8086 product a121 (miscellaneous memory, revision 0x31)
PMC (memory controller?)


and finally

>   vendor 8086 product 15b6 (ethernet network, revision 0x31)
USB3.1 Controller

That's also some kind of xhci. The "ethernet network" is a wrong
classification.

So, unless you have more USB devices, you probably will not be able
to use USB (mouse? keyboard?).


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