[REPOST] Compatibility with certain VIA and Realtek NICs

[Bill Moran]

Nico Meijer <nico.meijer at zonnet.nl> wrote:
> Hey Bill,
> 
> > Some of the units we're considering have one of the following NIC chipsets:
> > VIA 6103
> 
> Which is on the Via EPIA-V series boards, which is what I'm using for a 
> project right now. I had that machine running 4.9 and 4.10, now it is 
> running OpenBSD 3.5-stable. I have succesfully used an EPIA M6000 with 
> 4.8 aswell.
> 
> http://www.viavpsd.com/product/epia_v_spec.jsp?motherboardId=141
> 
> HTH... Nico

Yes, this helps a lot.  Thank you very much!

> 
> P.S. OpenBSD's dmesg follows:
> 
> OpenBSD 3.5-stable (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jul  1 22:13:04 CEST 2004
>      root@[whatever]:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> cpu0: VIA Nehemiah ("CentaurHauls" 686-class) 1 GHz
> cpu0: FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MTRR,PGE,CMOV,MMX,FXSR,SSE
> cpu0: RNG
> real mem  = 528007168 (515632K)
> avail mem = 483446784 (472116K)
> using 4278 buffers containing 26505216 bytes (25884K) of memory
> mainbus0 (root)
> bios0 at mainbus0: AT/286+(e1) BIOS, date 03/27/03, BIOS32 rev. 0 @ 0xfb150
> apm0 at bios0: Power Management spec V1.2
> apm0: AC on, battery charge unknown
> pcibios0 at bios0: rev. 2.1 @ 0xf0000/0xdf94
> pcibios0: PCI IRQ Routing Table rev. 1.0 @ 0xfdf20/112 (5 entries)
> pcibios0: PCI Exclusive IRQs: 10 11
> pcibios0: PCI Interrupt Router at 000:17:0 ("VIA VT8231 ISA" rev 0x00)
> pcibios0: PCI bus #1 is the last bus
> bios0: ROM list: 0xc0000/0xc000
> pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1 (no bios)
> pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0 "VIA VT8601 PCI" rev 0x05
> ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0 "VIA VT82C601 AGP" rev 0x00
> pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
> vga1 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Trident CyberBlade i1" rev 0x6a
> wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> wsdisplay0: screen 1-5 added (80x25, vt100 emulation)
> pcib0 at pci0 dev 17 function 0 "VIA VT8231 ISA" rev 0x10
> pciide0 at pci0 dev 17 function 1 "VIA VT82C571 IDE" rev 0x06: ATA100, 
> channel 0 configured to compatibility, channel 1 configured to compatibility
> wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <ExcelStor Technology J680>
> wd0: 16-sector PIO, LBA48, 78533MB, 160836480 sectors
> wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 5
> pciide0: channel 1 ignored (disabled)
> uhci0 at pci0 dev 17 function 2 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x1e: irq 10
> usb0 at uhci0: USB revision 1.0
> uhub0 at usb0
> uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> uhci1 at pci0 dev 17 function 3 "VIA VT83C572 USB" rev 0x1e: irq 10
> usb1 at uhci1: USB revision 1.0
> uhub1 at usb1
> uhub1: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1
> uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
> viaenv0 at pci0 dev 17 function 4 "VIA VT8231 PMG" rev 0x10
> vr0 at pci0 dev 18 function 0 "VIA RhineII-2" rev 0x51: irq 11 address 
> 00:40:63:c9:b7:2e
> ukphy0 at vr0 phy 1: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
> ukphy0: OUI 0x004063, model 0x0032, rev. 5
> isa0 at pcib0
> isadma0 at isa0
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> sysbeep0 at pcppi0
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x378/4 irq 7
> npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0/16: using exception 16
> pccom0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> biomask 4400 netmask 4c00 ttymask 4c82
> pctr: user-level cycle counter enabled
> dkcsum: wd0 matched BIOS disk 80
> root on wd0a
> rootdev=0x0 rrootdev=0x300 rawdev=0x302
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Bill Moran
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