From owner-freebsd-bugs Sun Dec 16 14:40: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E43437B417 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:40:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBGMe1345858; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:40:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:40:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200112162240.fBGMe1345858@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: David Greenman Subject: Re: kern/32913: still no support for Intel "eepro100" NICs Reply-To: David Greenman Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/32913; it has been noted by GNATS. From: David Greenman To: Olaf Zaplinski Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/32913: still no support for Intel "eepro100" NICs Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 14:28:00 -0800 >had to delete BSD - if it has no network, it's useless :-( >Problem is there with both standard and self compiled kernel >>Description: >- tried FreeBSD 4.4 and had to learn that both my several years old Intel Pro/100B and also my newer Pro/100+ do not work, fxp0 says "could not map [address|register]" (don't remember the exact phrase). Same as with 4.0 (this was the last time I wanted to try BSD). Both cards work fine under Win9x/2K + Linux 2.4.x >- Machine A (older card) has Intel LX chipset >- Machine B (newer card, BSD test install) has Via 694X/694Z chipset >- swapping cards between machines and reinstall on B did not help > >Info for the older card (Linux): > >00:10.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 02) > Subsystem: Intel Corporation EtherExpress PRO/100B (TX) > Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 11 > Memory at fecfe000 (32-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K] > I/O ports at f800 [size=32] > Memory at fed00000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=1M] > Expansion ROM at [disabled] [size=1M] > >>How-To-Repeat: >Just buy that Intel NIC and try to ping your default gw ;-) Both the Pro/100B and Pro/100+ boards are fully supported. The problem that you described is a problem with your motherboard PCI BIOS not properly allocating a shared memory region for the device registers to be mapped. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message