Intel device IDs (Intel S5000PAL board, onboard ether gige interfaces working?)

[Jack Vogel]

Sorry, but you dont want to do this. This is a hybrid
sorta NIC, the PHY is only 10/100, but the MAC is
a Gig part.

Get the latest em driver and load that, guess what, it
will work.

Dont look at me, wasnt my idea :)

Jack


On 10/27/06, Mike Tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:
> At 12:33 PM 10/27/2006, Jack Vogel wrote:
> >On 10/27/06, Kurt Jaeger <lists at c0mplx.org> wrote:
> >>Hi!
> >>
> >>Can someone report success with the onboard GigE ports of an
> >>Intel S5000PAL board ?
> >>
> >>Thanks for any report 8-}
> >
> >This is one of our new systems, the onboard NICs require either
> >the latest driver you can download from Intel, or the community
> >STABLE that is named after my Intel driver (6.1.4).
>
> Hi,
>          Speaking of device IDs, I picked up a new Intel 946GZis MB
> that has an Intel 10/100 (I am guessing fxp?) thats not recognized by
> the stock fxp driver. Is it safe to just add the device IDs?  The box
> part # says boxd946gzissl
>
>
>
> none3 at pci4:8:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00018086 chip=0x10948086
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>      vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
>      class    = network
>      subclass = ethernet
>
>
> I am not sure if the name is quite right
>
> [r6-32bit]# diff -c if_fxp.c.orig if_fxp.c
> *** if_fxp.c.orig       Fri Oct 27 17:02:21 2006
> --- if_fxp.c    Fri Oct 27 17:03:21 2006
> ***************
> *** 179,184 ****
> --- 179,185 ----
>        { 0x1068, -1,     "Intel 82801FBM (ICH6-M) Pro/100 VE Ethernet" },
>        { 0x1069, -1,     "Intel 82562EM/EX/GX Pro/100 Ethernet" },
>        { 0x1092, -1,     "Intel Pro/100 VE Network Connection" },
> +     { 0x1094, -1,     "Intel Pro/100 946GZ (ICH7) Network Connection" },
>        { 0x1209, -1,     "Intel 82559ER Embedded 10/100 Ethernet" },
>        { 0x1229, 0x01,   "Intel 82557 Pro/100 Ethernet" },
>        { 0x1229, 0x02,   "Intel 82557 Pro/100 Ethernet" },
> [r6-32bit]#
>
> but it seems to work
>
> [r6-32bit]% grep -i fxp /var/run/dmesg.boot
> fxp0: <Intel Pro/100 946GZ (ICH7) Network Connection> port
> 0x1100-0x113f mem 0x90000000-0x90000fff irq 20 at device 8.0 on pci4
> miibus1: <MII bus> on fxp0
> fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:16:76:be:96:ce
> fxp0: link state changed to DOWN
> fxp0: link state changed to UP
> fxp0: <Intel Pro/100 946GZ (ICH7) Network Connection> port
> 0x1100-0x113f mem 0x90000000-0x90000fff irq 20 at device 8.0 on pci4
> miibus1: <MII bus> on fxp0
> fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:16:76:be:96:ce
> [r6-32bit]%
> [r6-32bit]%
>
> fxp0 at pci4:8:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x00018086 chip=0x10948086
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>      vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
>      class    = network
>      subclass = ethernet
> [r6-32bit]#
>
>