Re: missing driver problem

[steve%prd.co.uk@localhost (Steve Blinkhorn)]

Thanks for the quick response.   I can't easily get the whole of
/var/run/dmesg.boot to you for lack of a network connection, but here
is a manual transcript of the relevant line for the Ethernet adapter:

vendor 0x8086 product 0x153b (ethernet network revision 0x04) at pci dev 25 
function 0 not configured

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Steve Blinkhorn <steve%prd.co.uk@localhost>

You wrote:
> 
> On 2014/07/30 3:28, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> > I have just installed the first of what is intended to be a clutch of
> > several amd64 systems on an Intel core i5 based Fujitsu micro PC - the
> > sort with everything soldered in and looks like a doorstop paperback.
> > The installation is multiboot with (pre-installed) Windows 8.1.
> >
> > I have some (possibly related) problems.
> >
> > 1. If I boot normally, the keyboard does not function, but if I boot
> > single user and then Ctrl-D it does.
> >
> > 2. However I get hardware probe messages every few seconds saying that
> > a handful of devices related to a USB hub have disconnected.
> >
> > 3. Various devices just do not work, presumably for lack of suitable
> > drivers.   These are all Intel, and include both the Ethernet 1217V
> > and Wireless Centrino N-2230 network adapters, as well as the USB 3.0
> > hub and a handful of others.
> >
> > I have seen the correspondence in the NetBSD-users archive a couple of
> > years back, which didn't seem to come to any very definite conclusion.
> > I'm a long-term NetBSD user, but driver development is just out of my
> > league.   Have I wasted my money on this kit?   I've never had the
> > experience of commodity hardware failing to find suitable drivers
> > before, and these machines  are scarcely  leading-edge experimental.
> > Of course, there may be drivers that just aren't configured in the
> > GENERIC kernel, but without a network connection to download the
> > sources I'm not in a good position to find out.
> 
>   For Intel I217V, -current and netbsd-6 branch support the device.
> I have been using a motherboard which has I217LM on-board for a
> year.  
> 
> > wm1 at pci0 dev 25 function 0: I217 LM Ethernet Connection (rev. 0x04)
> > wm1: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
> > wm1: PCI-Express bus
> > wm1: FLASH
> > wm1: Ethernet address 70:54:d2:xx:xx:xx
> 
> If the device doesn't work on your machine, please show me the dmesg.
> 
> 
> 
>   Thanks.
> 
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