Re: ixg(4) and Intel X540?

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

I would suggest suggest sending the card to someone who volunteered to
look at the driver (like msaitoh) but doesn't have the hardware.

On Fri, 20 Feb 2015, Hauke Fath wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have a batch of servers here with an Intel X540-T1 10GbE card that I
> had hoped would be recognized as ixg(4) by NetBSD, but no...
>
> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
> vendor 0x8086 product 0x1528 (ethernet network, revision 0x01) at pci1
> dev 0 function 0 not configured
>
> OpenBSD 5.6 probes it as
>
> ix0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Intel X540T" rev. 0x01: msi, address
> a0:36:9f:23:21:fc
>
> but then fails to detect a carrier.
>
> FreeBSD 10.1 probes it as
>
> ix0: <Intel(R) PRO/10GbE PCI-Express Network Driver, Version - 2.5.15>
> mem 0xf6000000-0xf61fffff,0xf6200000-0xf6203fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
> pci1
> ix0: Using MSIX interrupts with 5 vectors
> ix0: Ethernet address: a0:36:9f:23:21:fc
> ix0: PCI Express Bus: Speed 5.0GT/s Width x8
>
> and then fails to recognize the cd drive it just booted from, so I
> couldn't run ifconfig.
>
> I understand that the NetBSD ixg(4) was ported from FreeBSD
> <http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.os.netbsd.devel.network/12284>. What
> would it take to support the X540?
>
> Cheerio,
> hauke

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