Re: Trouble sensing NIC on HP Pavillion a6600f

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 01:43:14AM -0400, Yoseff Francus wrote:
> I am having a problem seeing either the on-board NIC or a USB (Linksys USB 
> 200M). I am running NetBSD 3.1.1
> 
> The message I think is relevant in the logs is
> 
> NVIDIA product 0x07dc (ethernet network, revision 0xa2) at pci0 dev 15 
> function 0 not configured
> 
> Looking through some threads I have confirmed that my kernel does have nfe 
> in it - should take care of the onboard NIC and also has axe in it which 
> should handle the USB NIC interface.

But:

product NVIDIA  MCP73_LAN1      0x07dc  nForce MCP73 Gigabit Ethernet Controller

if_nfe.c:

revision 1.7.2.3
date: 2008/02/23 14:21:50;  author: bouyer;  state: Exp;  lines: +58 -14
Pull up following revision(s) (requested by tsutsui in ticket #1061):
        sys/dev/pci/if_nfe.c: revision 1.22, 1.23, 1.25, 1.27
        sys/dev/pci/pcidevs: revision 1.914
        sys/dev/pci/if_nfereg.h: revision 1.5, 1.6
        share/man/man4/nfe.4: revision 1.4
        sys/dev/pci/if_nfevar.h: revision 1.5, 1.6
Add NVIDIA MCP7[37] devices, from OpenBSD.
Attach to NVIDIA MCP67/73 Ethernet controllers.
Add the MCP{67,73} products on nfe_attach().

So it can't be in NetBSD 3.1.1. Support for that deivice is only in -current 
and on
the netbsd-4 branch.

It MAY be enough to add the entry to if_nfe.c, but looking at the changes
it seems you could get problems with power management and I don't know if
there are more problems.

Bernd