Subject: Re: 82541 GI support
To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 08/04/2004 09:48:55
> Mipam wrote:
> > > I bought two intel 82541 GI NIC's, but i noticed 1.6 doesnt support  
> them.
> > > Are they supported in current or will they be supported in 2.0?

> Hnmm, i checked and there is no support for it in 1.6 yet.
> In current it seems to be there.
> Suppose i would add underneath changes to the files listed below in1.6  
> (from current sources) would this card work?
[snip]

I independently made the same changes a week ago (plus added support for  
the 82547GI), but
it didn't work. The MAC address was read wrong and there was no phy (on  
2.0 or -current it uses igphy
which doesn't exist on 1.6).

-- 
Stephen