Nick Triantos wrote:
Hi,
I just bought a Sony VGN-S380 laptop, which is based on Intel's Sonoma platform. This includes the Intel i915 chipset. I'm looking for ethernet (not wireless) drivers for it, the fxp driver reluctantly loads, but doesn't recognize that there's a compatible card in my system.
Isn't the i915 the graphics chipset? What is known about the NIC portion of this board? What shows up in dmesg?
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root# kldstat Id Refs Address Size Name ... 4 1 0xc1f23000 8000 if_fxp.ko
However, ifconfig does not show an interface to this
card (it shows lo0 and fwe0, which I think is the firewire ethernet driver).
It is.
Any clues? It looks like a fix has been applied to the fxp driver,
in time for rel 5.3, that should have added alviso chip support. Maybe I'm missing some other core logic driver, I really don't know.
Hmm, what are you referring to here?
IANAE, so please hang on in case someone (who likely isn't sitting at their desk on a Sunday afternoon) knowledgeable comes along; however, I see no mention of "i915" either in the manpage for fxp(4), nor can I grep "Alviso" or "i915" in any files under /src/sys/pci or /src/sys/net. Google doesn't turn up much, either.
The thing is pretty new, so I'd wonder if it's supported. You can definitely take a look at the HCL at the website. I'll hope for your sake it is --- like I said, IANAE. But, I do wonder...
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