I have a desktop I can plug the card into. Would it still work to boot OpenBSD from a USB drive rather than a SATA/NVMe drive? Or would that affect PCI debugging? I’m not familiar with debugging this close to the hardware.
Aug 9, 2021, 03:51 by [email protected]: > (oops, resending with typo in bugs@ email address fixed) > > > On 2021-08-08, Andrew Laramore <[email protected]> wrote: > >>Synopsis: PCI-E NIC won't load on RockPro64 > >>Category: arm > >>Environment: > >> System : OpenBSD 6.9 >> Details : OpenBSD 6.9 (GENERIC.MP) #0: Thu May 20 02:29:27 MDT 2021 >> [email protected]:/usr/src/sys/arch/arm64/compile/GENERIC.MP >> >> Architecture: OpenBSD.arm64 >> Machine : arm64 >> > >>Description: I attached a PCI-E 4-port NIC to the PCI-E slot on the > >>RockPro64. OpenBSD boots with the card attached, but doesn't enable the > >>card. I can't find any particular errors explaining why the card is not > >>enabled. No lights turn on in the NIC during port nor when attaching an > >>ethernet cable. Thought perhaps the PCI-E slot was to blame but I have > >>another single-port NIC running just fine in the same slot. > >>How-To-Repeat: Connect PCI-E NIC to RockPro64 PCI-E slot and boot. Nothing > >>is added to ifconfig and the card only shows on pcidump as disabled. Model > >>number SI-PEX24042 running RTL8111 Chipset. > > Do you have a way to try the card with OpenBSD on another architecture > (e.g. amd64)? > > -- > Please keep replies on the mailing list. >
