Date: Thu, 30 Dec 1999 23:29:46 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: repeat: pci problem w/ de0 NIC Message-ID: <199912302229.XAA24368@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de>
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Steve Lewis wrote in list.freebsd-questions:
> -using 2.2.8-Release (the latest thing I have on CD)
I'd recommend that you upgrade. If you need CDs, you can order
3.4-Release from www.freebsdmall.com.
> -building network gateway (LAN/cable modem service)
>
> I have found little in the archive or FAQ to help me thus far, at least
> little that made much sense to me. I am trying to install a pci NIC as
> de0 (it's a GFC2204 which is compatible with the DEC21x4x supposedly).
>
> 1. Is there a better driver, perhaps a DEC22x4x driver, available (at a
> later release perhaps)?
There's a (very new) driver for DEC and compatible cards,
called dc0. (However, I think it's only available in -current,
but I'm not 100% sure about this.)
> 2. according to /stand/help/hardware.hlp.gz the de0 driver cannot
> determine port, IRQ, DRQ, or IOMem address. Does this mean that I have to
> specify this information in the kernel config?
The de0 driver supports only PCI cards. Hardware resources for
PCI cards (interrupt, memory ranges etc.) are allocated
automatically. You don't specify them, and you don't have to
worry about them.
> 2b) if so, I know it is at IRQ 11 and the BIOS tells me it is using Mem
> address of 1000-107F; what is the device line going to look like?
device de0
> 3. dmesg gives me the following:
>
> pci0:13: vendor=0x1256, device=0x1400, class network (ethernet) int a irq
> 11 [no driver assigned]
>
> What exactly does this tell me/what does it mean?
It means that none of the drivers in your kernel recognized the
card. In other words: when your PCI bus controller driver
found that PCI card, it asked around all your drivers ``OK,
here's a card with vendor ID xxx and device ID yyy -- so which
of you can drive this thing?'', and all drivers just shaked
their heads.
If you're _really_ sure that the chip on that card is 100%
hardware compatible with DEC 21x4x, you could hack the de0
driver to accept that particular vendor/device IDs. Then
rebuild your kernel, reboot, and see what happens...
You could also avoid all of that hassle and just buy a real
DEC card (or some reasonable clone, like the Macronix MX) for
~ $20.
Regards
Oliver
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