D'oh, you're right, the i915 is the graphics chip (I think, technically, it's the whole northbridge. Intel is damn unclear about what functions are in each chip.

The Win XP drivers list the ethernet as "Intel(R) PRO/100 VE"
PCI ID: vendor = 8086
        dev    = 1068
        subsys = 81d0104d
        rev    = 03

The marketing page about this platform is here:

http://www.intel.com/technology/itj/2005/volume09issue01/intro/p05_new_components.htm

though it's quite substance-free.  :-|

I'll keep hunting for what could be going wrong, but any further pointers welcome!

thanks all,
-Nick

Kevin Kinsey wrote:
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?

<snip>

  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...

Kevin Kinsey
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