kernel wants the wrong driver for my NIC (new issue)
Michael Gass
mgass at unix.csbsju.edu
Fri Jun 19 23:08:04 UTC 2009
On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:24:29PM -0500, Michael Gass wrote:
> I'm running 7.2-stable and I replaced an old ISA NIC with
> a D-Link DFE-530TX+ card. According to the manual, the
> correct driver for this card is rl driver. The kernel
> insists on using the vr driver which is for the DFE-530TX.
> >From what I can tell, the two cards have different chipsets
> and so the drivers are not compatable.
>
I got the vr driver to work: it was an IRQ issue. Seems
sio1 wanted irq 3 which is what vr0 was taking. Somehow that
caused a problem.
BUT
I am still confused about the rl driver not working for this
card. The NOTES in /usr/src/sys/conf/NOTES explicitly state
that the rl driver is for the DFE-530TX+ and that the vr
driver is for the DFE-530TX. I have the former and so should
be using the rl drive it seems. Is this a mistake in the
documentation (including the man page for each driver)?
I made a new kernel without the vr driver and the result was
that no driver at all was recognized for the NIC.
Is there a way to force the kernel to put an entry in /dev
for rl0 so that I could try to configue it for the NIC?
BTW, visual inspection of the chip on my DFE-530TX+ says it
is a DL10030C.
Here is some relevant output from running pciconf -lvc.
vr0 at pci0:0:11:0: class=0x020000 card=0x14061186 chip=0x31061106 rev=0x86 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'VIA Technologies Inc'
device = 'VT6105M/LOM Rhine III PCI Fast Ethernet Controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
cap 01[40] = powerspec 2 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0
vgapci0 at pci0:1:0:0: class=0x030000 card=0x47421002 chip=0x47421002 rev=0x5c hdr=0x00
>
> Output from ifconfig and dmesg are below.
>
> Thanks, Mike Gass Minnesota USA
>
> ifconfig output
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> vr0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=2808<VLAN_MTU,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
> ether 00:22:b0:6d:e8:b6
> inet 192.168.0.3 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
> status: active
> plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> metric 0 mtu 1500
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
> inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
>
>
> dmesg output
> ------------------------------------------
> Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
> Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
> The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
> FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
> FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Sat Jun 13 09:59:29 CDT 2009
> root at pavilion.home.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
> module_register: module rl/miibus already exists!
> Module rl/miibus failed to register: 17
> module_register: module cardbus/rl already exists!
> Module cardbus/rl failed to register: 17
> module_register: module pci/rl already exists!
> Module pci/rl failed to register: 17
> Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
> CPU: Pentium II/Pentium II Xeon/Celeron (400.91-MHz 686-class CPU)
> Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x665 Stepping = 5
> Features=0x183f9ff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR>
> real memory = 268369920 (255 MB)
> avail memory = 248492032 (236 MB)
> kbd1 at kbdmux0
> acpi0: <PTLTD RSDT> on motherboard
> acpi0: [ITHREAD]
> acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
> Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
> acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x1008-0x100b on acpi0
> pcib0: <ACPI Host-PCI bridge> port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
> pci0: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib0
> agp0: <Intel 82443BX (440 BX) host to PCI bridge> on hostb0
> pcib1: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
> pci1: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib1
> vgapci0: <VGA-compatible display> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xf5000000-0xf5ffffff,0xf4100000-0xf4100fff irq 11 at device 0.0 on pci1
> drm0: <3D Rage Pro AGP 1X/2X> on vgapci0
> vgapci0: child drm0 requested pci_enable_busmaster
> info: [drm] AGP at 0xf8000000 64MB
> info: [drm] Initialized mach64 2.0.0 20060718
> isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 7.0 on pci0
> isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376,0x1050-0x105f at device 7.1 on pci0
> ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0
> ata0: [ITHREAD]
> ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0
> ata1: [ITHREAD]
> uhci0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> port 0x1060-0x107f irq 5 at device 7.2 on pci0
> uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> uhci0: [ITHREAD]
> usb0: <Intel 82371AB/EB (PIIX4) USB controller> on uhci0
> usb0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0: <Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1> on usb0
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> pci0: <bridge> at device 7.3 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
> vr0: <VIA VT6105 Rhine III 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem 0xf4000000-0xf40000ff irq 3 at device 11.0 on pci0
> vr0: Quirks: 0x0
> vr0: Revision: 0x86
> miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0
> ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> vr0: Ethernet address: 00:22:b0:6d:e8:b6
> vr0: [ITHREAD]
> acpi_button0: <Power Button> on acpi0
> atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
> atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
> kbd0 at atkbd0
> atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
> psm0: <PS/2 Mouse> irq 12 on atkbdc0
> psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> psm0: [ITHREAD]
> psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0
> fdc0: <floppy drive controller> port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
> fdc0: [FILTER]
> fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
> sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
> sio0: type 16550A
> sio0: [FILTER]
> cpu0: <ACPI CPU> on acpi0
> acpi_throttle0: <ACPI CPU Throttling> on cpu0
> pmtimer0 on isa0
> orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xca7ff pnpid ORM0000 on isa0
> ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
> ppc0: Generic chipset (EPP/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
> ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
> ppbus0: [ITHREAD]
> plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus0
> plip0: WARNING: using obsoleted IFF_NEEDSGIANT flag
> lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
> lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
> ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
> ppc0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
> ppc0: [ITHREAD]
> sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
> sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
> sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
> sio1: port may not be enabled
> vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
> Timecounter "TSC" frequency 400911857 Hz quality 800
> Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
> ad0: 28610MB <WDC WD300BB-75DEA0 05.03E05> at ata0-master UDMA33
> acd0: CDROM <CRD-8322B/1.05> at ata1-master PIO4
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
> vr0: link state changed to DOWN
> vr0: link state changed to UP
> vr0: link state changed to DOWN
> vr0: link state changed to UP
>
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Michael Gass
Department of Mathematics
St. John's University
Collegeville, MN 56321-3000
(320) 363-3090
mgass at csbsju.edu
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