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Date:      Tue, 28 Mar 2000 16:01:52 -0800
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Milon Papezik <milon.papezik@oskarmobil.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Onboard Intel NIC 
Message-ID:  <200003290001.QAA21237@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Mar 2000 01:55:52 %2B0200." <38E14688.397488E2@oskarmobil.cz> 

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>The only thing remaining is that the card is reported as
>Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100B (which used to have i82557),
>but it's a card with i82559.
>
>This can be detected by reading the revision code of
>integrated PHY (registers 2 and 3) through MDI in CSR space
>(pg. 87 in i82559 datasheet or pg. 67 for i82559ER).
>
>The value is different for i82558 and i82559[ER].
>It is 0x02A8:0150 for i82558 and 0x02A8:0154 for both 82559
>and i82559ER.
>
>Do you plan to change/improve the card/chipset
>reporting mechanism?

   I wasn't planning to in the short term, but I'd be happy to review some
patches for it! :-)

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com
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