Re: kern/40580: Intel 82657LM3 Gigabit Ethernet (wm(4)) needs some more robustness & inclusion

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR kern/40580; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: kern-bug-people%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
netbsd-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: kern/40580: Intel 82657LM3 Gigabit Ethernet (wm(4)) needs some 
more robustness & inclusion
Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2009 21:31:52 +0100

 On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 06:10:01PM +0000, 
michael+netbsd%stapelberg.de@localhost wrote:
 > The wm(4) Support of Intel 82657LM3 (as found in the Intel DQ45CB Desktop 
 > Mainboard and some modern laptops) is relatively flakey. The following 
 > symptoms occur:
 > 
 > 1) On boot, an ioctl (SIOCSIFMEDIA) fails (invalid argument). Probably just 
 > not implemented?
 
 wm(4) probably failed to probe the PHY. Can you post the boot message ?
 
 > 
 > 2) During operation, the device is always shown as down.
 
 Direct consequence of 1)
 
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