[9fans] Intel PRO/100 VE adapter

[9fans] Intel PRO/100 VE adapter

[Claudio Leite]

Hello. I found this entry in the Wiki while poking around today:

"Intel PRO/100 VE (82562) LAN driver. Intel's web site is most obtuse about this device. What's unique about it? Why would one buy one of these instead of an 8255789 (100Mb/s) or 82540 (GbE)? Is it another broken motherboard interface? - geoff"

I have a motherboard with this chip, and last night (prior to reading this) I managed to make it work. The modification is as simple as adding an entry in the detection code in ether82557.c:

        923:    	while(p = pcimatch(p, 0x8086, 0)){
        924:    		switch(p->did){
        925:    		default:
        926:    			continue;
        927:    		case 0x1031:		/* Intel 82562EM */
        928:    		case 0x2449:		/* Intel 82562ET */
        929:    			nop = 1;
        930:    			/*FALLTHROUGH*/
        931:    		case 0x1209:		/* Intel 82559ER */
        932:    		case 0x1229:		/* Intel 8255[789] */
        933:    		case 0x1030:		/* Intel 82559 InBusiness 10/100  */
        934:    		case 0x1039:		/* Intel 82801BD PRO/100 VE */
			-->	case 0x103a: <--
        935:    			break;
        936:    		}
        937:    

where 0x103a is the PCI id of the device. Poking around in the driver code from NetBSD, it looks like there really isn't anything special about this device, to answer geoff's question. So far it's working properly and speedily on my machine.

-Claudio

Re: [9fans] Intel PRO/100 VE adapter

[jmk]

Thanks. I've applied the fix.

--jim