Re: missing driver problem

[Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

Hi.

On 2014/07/30 23:05, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> 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

This is I217V

From pcidevs:
> product INTEL I217_V            0x153b  I217-V Ethernet Connection

From if_wm.c
>         { PCI_VENDOR_INTEL,     PCI_PRODUCT_INTEL_I217_V,
>           "I217 V Ethernet Connection",

The entry exists in both -current and netbsd-6...




> --
> 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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