A few weeks back I installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE on my laptop to
check it out (as well as explore the adaptability of the laptop to
other operating systems). I spent a good bit of time getting a dual
boot setup working as desired and making Win2k work with the machine
... and the last few days I've finally spent trying to nail down the
FreeBSD kernel.
Right now my biggest hangup is support for the integrated Intel
ethernet adapter. The generic kernel created by the installer produced
the following boot information for the adapter ...
fxp0: <Intel Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x4000-0x403f mem
0xe8200000-0xe8200fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci2
fxp0: Ethernet address 00:00:f0:76:23:d6
inphy0: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
And the adapter functioned fine. After compiling a kernel for the
unit however, I get the following results which needless to say are ...
quite different ...
fxp0: <Intel Pro/100 Ethernet> port 0x4000-0x403f mem
0xe8200000-0xe8200fff irq 10 at device 8.0 on pci2
fxp0: could not map device registers
device_probe_and_attach: fxp0 attach returned 6
Now, I scoured man pages, the site, etc looking for references to
inphy but came up with nothing. I assume as it was listed in the
kernel that dependancy came from miibus ... but since it obviously
wasn't working I tried looking around to see if there was another
dependancy I wasn't finding. I found OpenBSD/NetBSD references to phy
devices but none appear to be relevant to FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE.
Could anyone perchance give me some insight into what I'm doing
wrong here that is causing this device to fail with my kernel?
-John
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