Broken NIC in 4.8 Stable - reposted here as original was in -questions

David Dooley dpd at raffles-it.com
Sun Apr 6 23:24:23 PDT 2003


Apparently I should of posted this here instead of in -questions, so here goes:-

Hi 

I cvsup'ed the latest source on Saturday night at 9pm as I do every night onto
my dev box this was then extracted in to my source tree and a new world built
and new kernels for all my systems.

On Sunday I performed a "make installkernel" followed by a "make installworld"
and finally a mergemaster. This worked fine in my "gate" system and it is now
running 

# uname -a
FreeBSD gate.lan.raffles-it.com 4.8-STABLE FreeBSD 4.8-STABLE #0: Sat Apr  5 02:02:36 BST 2003     root at dev.lan.raffles-it.com:/usr/build/obj.stable/usr/build/src.stable/sys/GATE  i386

and all is working fine

when I performed the same steps on my "dev" box all appeared to be OK until I
rebooted when it failed to probe correctly my network card. Below is the
output of my "/var/log/messages file for the old 4.7 working kernel followed
closely by the output from the 4.8 kernel.

4.7
Apr  6 23:02:12 dev /kernel.keep: pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
Apr  6 23:02:12 dev /kernel.keep: pci2: <SiS 6326 SVGA controller> at 1.0
Apr  6 23:02:12 dev /kernel.keep: de0: <Digital 21140A Fast Ethernet> port 0xc400-0xc47f mem 0xe5010000-0xe501007f irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci2
Apr  6 23:02:12 dev /kernel.keep: de0: DEC DE500-AA 21140A [10-100Mb/s] pass 2.0
Apr  6 23:02:12 dev /kernel.keep: de0: address 00:00:f8:02:fc:b2
Apr  6 23:02:12 dev /kernel.keep: isab0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) PCI to LPC bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
Apr  6 23:02:12 dev /kernel.keep: isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0

4.8
Apr  6 23:00:39 dev /kernel: pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib2
Apr  6 23:00:39 dev /kernel: pci2: <SiS 6326 SVGA controller> at 1.0
Apr  6 23:00:39 dev /kernel: pci2: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1011, dev=0x0009) at 5.0 irq 11
Apr  6 23:00:39 dev /kernel: isab0: <Intel 82801BA/BAM (ICH2) PCI to LPC bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0
Apr  6 23:00:39 dev /kernel: isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0

Not being someone that is terribly up with the inner workings of the kernel,
can any one provide any guidance as to where to look. I have looked through
/usr/src/UPDATING and LINT and cannot see any changes like the inclusion of
"miibus" that may be required. I know this problem appeared a while back for
me and it took about a week to ten days of cvsupping and rebuilding kernels
before it all magically started working again.

Any one know what might of changed?

Thanks for any assistance as I have 4 machines with the exact same network
card that I would like to upgrade some time soon.

David.

-- 

David Dooley
dpd at raffles-it.com

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