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

[Mike Tancsa]

At 05:28 PM 10/27/2006, Jack Vogel wrote:
>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.

Hi,
         I thought the latest em driver is in RELENG_6 ?  With the 
modified fxp driver it does seem to work so far as in simple ftp and 
scp tests.

>Dont look at me, wasnt my idea :)

I will try
http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df-external/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&Inst=Yes&ProductID=838&DwnldID=10957&strOSs=52&OSFullName=FreeBSD*&lang=eng

  em-6.1.4.tar.gz on a RELENG_6 kernel
FreeBSD r6-32bit.sentex.ca 6.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-PRERELEASE #2: 
Fri Oct 27 17:10:03 EDT 2006

         ---Mike



>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]#
>>