On Sunday 08 June 2014 12:45:10 David Goodenough wrote: > I came across a mini-pci board that had got lost in the back of a cupboard. > Needing a couple of extra ethernet ports on a board I thought I had found > the solution to my problem. The board is a BVM MP-551, which has one RJ45 > on the board and another on a daughterboard. > > When I install the board it is recognised by lspci, and only one new ethX > port is reported by ip addr. > > I do have the firmware on the machine, but it only gets loaded when I try > to configure the port at which point all the PCI configuration has completed > I guess. > > Curiously if I attach the second port to a router and start the first port > it works. However the documentation insists that the two ports are supposed > to be separate. > > Does anyone know how to enable the second port properly? > > David > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > -- Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book > "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their > applications. Written by three acclaimed leaders in the field, > this first edition is now available. Download your free book today! > http://p.sf.net/sfu/NeoTech > _______________________________________________ > E1000-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel > To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit > http://communities.intel.com/community/wired For the record in the unlikely case that someone else needs the answer here is what I found,
1) In the 82551QM datasheet there is no reference to a second port. 2) Looking at the traces on the board the two ports seem to be commoned So it appears that the online docs from BVM are misleading, it is not really LAN1 and LAN2, it is on-board LAN or off-board LAN. David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ E1000-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/e1000-devel To learn more about Intel® Ethernet, visit http://communities.intel.com/community/wired
