On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 11:35 PM, Jonathan Gray <j...@jsg.id.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 10:18:26PM -0400, Dewey Hylton wrote: > > i like these little boxes; they are silent and stable and perfect for > plenty > > of my projects. this new version promises to be better than the several > fit2 > > machines i have scattered around customer sites, affording more cores and > > memory. > > > > the man page for em shows the i211 to be supported. this machine uses > that > > chip, and it is even reported by the kernel - but still does not work. > is it > > possible that its specific id is simply missing from the driver, or is > there > > more to it than that? > > > > i booted the computer via pxe, so the ethernet is clearly working. it > > shipped with linux, and networking worked there too. > > > > of course it'd be nice for all the other bits to be in working order as > > well, but at the moment ethernet is the most important for my purposes. > > > > please let me know what i can do to get this working, or how i can assist > > otherwise. > > If you can get the dmesg output of a kernel built with the following > diff it should indicate where the problem is: > > Index: sys/dev/pci/if_em_osdep.h > =================================================================== > RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/dev/pci/if_em_osdep.h,v > retrieving revision 1.12 > diff -u -p -r1.12 if_em_osdep.h > --- sys/dev/pci/if_em_osdep.h 5 Oct 2011 02:52:10 -0000 1.12 > +++ sys/dev/pci/if_em_osdep.h 29 Oct 2015 03:27:36 -0000 > @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE. > > #define MSGOUT(S, A, B) printf(S "\n", A, B) > #define DEBUGFUNC(F) DEBUGOUT(F); > -#ifdef DBG > +//#ifdef DBG > +#if 1 > #define DEBUGOUT(S) printf(S "\n") > #define DEBUGOUT1(S,A) printf(S "\n",A) > #define DEBUGOUT2(S,A,B) printf(S "\n",A,B) > i'll attempt to build a new bsd.rd with this patch and report back. i've never done this, so it may take a bit of time to work out the details. thanks for the suggestion.
