MSI Wind Notebook's network interfaces

[Milan Obuch]

On Friday 05 September 2008 10:23:22 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:45:08AM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote:

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>  > In 7.0-RELEASE wired network interface did not work, but after upgrading
>  > to 7-STABLE (now 7.1-PRERELEASE) it work with re driver. There is just
>  > one small uglyness - it's link level address (MAC) is 00:00:00:00:00:00.
>  > Needless to say, Windows initializes this to 00:1d:92:59:f5:8b. I can
>  > change it with 'ifconfig re0 ether 00:1d:92:59:f5:8b', but I would
>  > rather let the driver to find the correct MAC.

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>  > dmesg (part of verbose boot)
>  > re0: <RealTek 8101E/8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100baseTX> port 0xc000-0xc0ff
>  > mem 0xffd10000-0xffd10fff,0xffd00000-0xffd0ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on
>  > pci1 re0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x18 type 3 at 0xffd10000
>  > re0: MSI count : 1
>  > re0: Chip rev. 0x34800000
>  > re0: MAC rev. 0x00200000
>  > miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
>  > rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
>  > rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
>  > re0: bpf attached
>  > re0: [MPSAFE]
>  > re0: [FILTER]
>  >
>  > When not booting verbose, there is also one line telling
>  > re0: turning off MSI enable bit.
>
> re(4) cleared MSI enable bit of configuration register as MSI
> wouldn't be used. You can ignore this.
>

OK, but what surprised me a bit was the fact this line is not present in dmesg 
when booting verbose. I would expect all lines from normal boot in verbose 
boot...

>  > This netbook has also wireless interface, but this one does not get
>  > detected (or I have no driver for it), in dmesg there is only line
>  > telling pci2: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
>  >
>  > and relevant part of pciconf -lcv is
>  > none0 at pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x68941462 chip=0x819910ec
>  > rev=0x22 hdr=0x00
>  >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>  >     class      = network
>  >     cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
>  >     cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
>  >     cap 10[70] = PCI-Express 1 legacy endpoint
>  >
>  > While currently I have no urge need for wireless connectivity, in the
>  > long run I would like to use it. Currently I can't change card (probably
>  > minipci) as netbook is under warranty, with 'warranty sticker - void if
>  > tampered' over screw.
>  >
>  > If anybody had some idea how to fix MAC address initialization for wired
>
> Would you try attached patch?
>

I tried on freshly csup'ped head and it works. Ethernet link address is now 
correctly set. Great! It looks like a kind of magic at first glance :)

>  > interface or what driver to use for wireless interface (I will probably
>  > try NDIS, but my experience in this area is limited and previous
>  > succesfull try none), I am all ears.

Could anybody comment on wireless interface?

Regards,
Milan