intel etherexpress pro/10 not probed

[Han Hwei Woo]

Try setting the pnpos option in your bios to no.

My laptop's intel NIC doesn't get detected otherwise.

Cheers,
Han
http://www.argosy.ca/~hhw

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "michal novacek" <michal.novacek at unix.net>
To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, July 06, 2003 1:31 PM
Subject: intel etherexpress pro/10 not probed


>
> hi,
>
> i got intel etherexpress pro/10 combo card, which i got from old server,
> but i can't get it probed in my home computer. i guess it's not the hw
> prblem of the card because the link light switches on when i plug tp cable
> in it.
>
> during boot, i got the following:
> ...
> atapci0: <Intel PIIX3 ATA controller> port 0xffa0-0xffaf at device 7.1 on
> pci0
> ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0
> ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0
> pci0: <serial bus, USB> at device 7.2 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <display, VGA> at device 10.0 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <multimedia, audio> at device 11.0 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <input device> at device 11.1 (no driver attached)
> pci0: <network, ethernet> at device 12.0 (no driver attached)
> # ^^^^^^this is it
> ahc0: <Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter> port 0xec00-0xecff mem 0xffafb000-
> 0xffafbfff irq 10 at device 13.0 on pci0
> aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xffafaf00-
> 0xffafafff irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci0
> rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in autoselect
> mode
> rl0: Ethernet address: 00:08:a1:24:80:60
> miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
> rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
> rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
> ...
> [root at pooky boot]# pciconf -vl
> ...
> none2 at pci0:12:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x12268086
> rev=0x03 hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
>     device   = '82596 EtherExpress PRO/10'
>     class    = network
>     subclass = ethernet
> ...
>
> it seems to me, that everything is ok, bot i can't figure out how to make
> the system load the appropriate driver. from hardware notes, i suppose
that
> the driver (module)should be ex -- even man 4 ex lists this card, but i do
> not have this module in /boot/kernel/ and compiling it into kernel doesn't
> change anything (it's still not detected :-{) i'm using freebsd 5.0-
> release.
>
> thanx for any opinions.
>
> --m
>
> -- 
> [ michal.novacek at unix.net ] [ michal.novacek at jabber.cz ] [ 3415862 at icq ]
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