Re: missing driver problem

[Masanobu SAITOH <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

On 2014/07/30 3:28, Steve Blinkhorn wrote:
> I have just installed the first of what is intended to be a clutch of
> several amd64 systems on an Intel core i5 based Fujitsu micro PC - the
> sort with everything soldered in and looks like a doorstop paperback.
> The installation is multiboot with (pre-installed) Windows 8.1.
>
> I have some (possibly related) problems.
>
> 1. If I boot normally, the keyboard does not function, but if I boot
> single user and then Ctrl-D it does.
>
> 2. However I get hardware probe messages every few seconds saying that
> a handful of devices related to a USB hub have disconnected.
>
> 3. Various devices just do not work, presumably for lack of suitable
> drivers.   These are all Intel, and include both the Ethernet 1217V
> and Wireless Centrino N-2230 network adapters, as well as the USB 3.0
> hub and a handful of others.
>
> I have seen the correspondence in the NetBSD-users archive a couple of
> years back, which didn't seem to come to any very definite conclusion.
> I'm a long-term NetBSD user, but driver development is just out of my
> league.   Have I wasted my money on this kit?   I've never had the
> experience of commodity hardware failing to find suitable drivers
> before, and these machines  are scarcely  leading-edge experimental.
> Of course, there may be drivers that just aren't configured in the
> GENERIC kernel, but without a network connection to download the
> sources I'm not in a good position to find out.

 For Intel I217V, -current and netbsd-6 branch support the device.
I have been using a motherboard which has I217LM on-board for a
year.  

> wm1 at pci0 dev 25 function 0: I217 LM Ethernet Connection (rev. 0x04)
> wm1: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
> wm1: PCI-Express bus
> wm1: FLASH
> wm1: Ethernet address 70:54:d2:xx:xx:xx

If the device doesn't work on your machine, please show me the dmesg.



 Thanks.

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