On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Mike DeMarco wrote: > the rge driver that is now included with the solaris builds says that it > supports my chip set yet if I leave it enabled during the install the > install hangs at configuring interface rge0. I had to go into grub in > the start of the install and add disable-rge=true. This got build 72 > loaded and installed on my MSI M675 laptop. After the install I tried to > bring up the rge0 interface and it would plumb and configure all > parameters but no packets would be sent or received. I was unable to get > the interface to show any errors or to work. I removed the rge driver > and installed the gani driver and other than the above mentioned problem > it works.
Ok, this clears several of my questions. It's hard to tell what is going on, but often laptops will share interrupts on devices, I don't know if that is happening or not. Sometimes /usr/X11/bin/scanpci will give some clues. Are there are options in BIOS for the device? I'm not familiar with that laptop, unfortunately. In some cases changing acpi-user-options=0x8 might help, but that is just speculation, you might have tried that already. Clearly the real problem here is that the rge driver doesn't attach to your device properly. If there is a conflict with another device, it might be possible to disable that device and leave the rge enabled. The fact that the gani driver also has problems with your device is pointing to the hardware and/or something unique about it. Just what that is I'm not sure. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
