vge driver does not work on a VIA EPIA EN12000EG

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Thu Dec 11 17:58:50 PST 2008


On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 11:53:22PM +0100, Mam Ruoc wrote:
 > Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > >I think there was a similar report. Would you show me the output of
 > >"pciconf -lcv"?
 > 
 > I finally got an SSD disk instead of the CF/IDE. The output is attached.
 > 
 > >For a long time I wanted to clean up vge(4). Unfortunately the PCI
 > >NIC I have seem to broken so I guess it's hard to complete the
 > >cleanup. You can get a WIP(now stalled) in the following URL. Note,
 > >the driver may be chatty due to various debugging statements and it
 > >may not work at all for your controller.
 > 
 > I guess that I should recompile the whole src tree, or is the driver 
 > enough? I am new to FreeBSD, could anybody help?

If you use vge(4) kernel module, rebuilding vge(4) is enough.
If vge(4) is statically linked to kernel, rebuilding kernel is
necessary(i.e. not whole source tree).

I've added some macros to make it build on 7.0-RELEASE.
So if you already fetched sources, please refetch it from the
following URL.

http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/vge/if_vge.c
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/vge/if_vgereg.h
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/vge/if_vgevar.h

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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