Subject: Re: Intel network device not configured
To: Brad du Plessis <bradd@cat.co.za>
From: Matthias Scheler <tron@zhadum.org.uk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 08/01/2007 16:16:30
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 02:57:08PM +0200, Brad du Plessis wrote:
> >What kind of NIC is it? 100Mb/s or 1Gb/s? PCI(-X) or PCIe?
> 
> The manual says the LAN controller is:
> 
> "Intel 82566DC Gigabit (10/100/1000 Mb/s) Ethernet LAN controller"
> 
> My understanding is that its a PCI-E device.

So it's wm(4) which needs changing.

> Is there any hope of support for this device in the near future?

I've looked at the Linux driver which seems to support it. So there
is hope for this getting done but it requires more work than just
adding the PCI id to the driver. And it will probably require
somebody having the hardware to test the changes on.

	Kind regards

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Matthias Scheler                                  http://zhadum.org.uk/