Support for Alviso (Intel i915) chipset networking?

Nick Triantos nick-gmane at triantos.com
Tue May 3 00:52:43 PDT 2005


Anyone have any ideas?  I'm still a bit stumped as to why the stock 5.3 
fxp driver does not work with my Sonoma-based laptop.

thanks all,
-Nick

Nick Triantos wrote:
> D'oh, you're right, the i915 is the graphics chip (I think, technically, 
> it's the whole northbridge.  Intel is damn unclear about what functions 
> are in each chip.
> 
> The Win XP drivers list the ethernet as "Intel(R) PRO/100 VE"
> PCI ID: vendor = 8086
>         dev    = 1068
>         subsys = 81d0104d
>         rev    = 03
> 
> The marketing page about this platform is here:
> 
> http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2005/volume09issue01/intro/p05_new_components.htm 
> 
> 
> though it's quite substance-free.  :-|
> 
> I'll keep hunting for what could be going wrong, but any further 
> pointers welcome!
> 
> thanks all,
> -Nick
> 
> Kevin Kinsey wrote:
> 
>> Nick Triantos wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on
>>> Intel's Sonoma platform.  This includes the Intel i915
>>> chipset.  I'm looking for ethernet (not wireless) drivers
>>> for it, the fxp driver reluctantly loads, but doesn't
>>> recognize that there's a compatible card in my system.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Isn't the i915 the graphics chipset?  What is known about
>> the NIC portion of this board?  What shows up in dmesg?
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>>>   root# kldstat
>>>   Id Refs Address    Size    Name
>>>     ...
>>>    4    1 0xc1f23000 8000    if_fxp.ko
>>>
>>> However, ifconfig does not show an interface to this
>>> card (it shows lo0 and fwe0, which I think is the firewire ethernet 
>>> driver).
>>>
>>
>> It is.
>>
>>> Any clues?  It looks like a fix has been applied to the fxp driver,
>>> in time for rel 5.3, that should have added alviso chip support. 
>>> Maybe I'm missing some other core logic driver, I really don't know.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hmm, what are you referring to here?
>>
>> IANAE, so please hang on in case someone (who likely isn't sitting
>> at their desk on a Sunday afternoon) knowledgeable comes along;
>> however, I see no mention of "i915" either in the manpage for fxp(4),
>> nor can I grep "Alviso" or "i915" in any files under /src/sys/pci or
>> /src/sys/net.  Google doesn't turn up much, either.
>>
>> The thing is pretty new, so I'd wonder if it's supported.  You can
>> definitely take a look at the HCL at the website.  I'll hope for your
>> sake it is --- like I said, IANAE.  But, I do wonder...
>>
>> Kevin Kinsey
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