On 2021-08-10, Andrew Laramore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
That should be fine. It's probably enough to just check it works in the installer (i.e. select that as the network interface, choose an http install, and check that it can connect to show the list of *69.tgz file sets to choose from). > 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. >> > > -- Please keep replies on the mailing list.
