Date: Tue, 08 Jul 2003 11:54:00 -0400 From: Mykroft Holmes IV <mykroft@explosive.mail.net> To: "J.M. Warenda" <warendaj@comcast.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Integrated Intel Ethernet works with generic kernel, but not mine... Message-ID: <3F0AE918.5070207@explosive.mail.net> In-Reply-To: <003301c34565$91b24a20$4500a8c0@lucifer> References: <003301c34565$91b24a20$4500a8c0@lucifer>
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J.M. Warenda wrote: > A few weeks back I installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on my laptop to > check it out (as well as explore the adaptability of the laptop to > other operating systems). I spent a good bit of time getting a dual > boot setup working as desired and making Win2k work with the machine > ... and the last few days I've finally spent trying to nail down the > FreeBSD kernel. > > Right now my biggest hangup is support for the integrated Intel > ethernet adapter. The generic kernel created by the installer produced > the following boot information for the adapter ... > > fxp0: <Intel Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x4000-0x403f mem > 0xe8200000-0xe8200fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci2 > fxp0: Ethernet address 00:00:f0:76:23:d6 > inphy0: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 > inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > And the adapter functioned fine. After compiling a kernel for the > unit however, I get the following results which needless to say are ... > quite different ... > > fxp0: <Intel Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x4000-0x403f mem > 0xe8200000-0xe8200fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci2 > fxp0: could not map device registers > device_probe_and_attach: fxp0 attach returned 6 > > Now, I scoured man pages, the site, etc looking for references to > inphy but came up with nothing. I assume as it was listed in the > kernel that dependancy came from miibus ... but since it obviously > wasn't working I tried looking around to see if there was another > dependancy I wasn't finding. I found OpenBSD/NetBSD references to phy > devices but none appear to be relevant to FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE. > > Could anyone perchance give me some insight into what I'm doing > wrong here that is causing this device to fail with my kernel? > > -John > > did you enable mii when you built your kernel? You'll need it as well as fxp support. Adam
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