[OpenIndiana-discuss] installing on Gigabyte H370M motherboards?

[Aurélien Larcher]

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:14 PM Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 2:02 PM Carl Brewer <carl at bl.echidna.id.au> wrote:
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>> On 1/11/2018 11:46 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
>> > On 1/11/2018 1:37 PM, Carl Brewer wrote:
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>> > The HCL says that the Intel I219 V Ethernet card is supported, I'm
>> > seeing it not, the ID it's showing as is 8086,15bc
>> > This is very close to, but not the same as, most of the other Intel
>> > I219's that show up in the HCL here :
>> > https://www.illumos.org/hcl/
>> > eg :
>> > Intel Corporation Ethernet Connection I219-V
>> >
>> >      Driver: e1000g
>> >      PCI ID: 8086,1570
>> >      Originating manifest: driver-network-e1000g.mf
>> >
>> > I wonder if it's difficult to tweak the driver to recognise the
>> > 8086,15bc and get the e1000g driver to work for it?
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>> I tried just adding a line in /etc/driver_aliases that told the pci
>> e1000g driver to recognise 8086,15bc and now the driver util says
>> "misconfigured", and it shows up in dmesg as misconfigured after a
>> reboot.  Clearly something I've missed.  Hints?
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> Tto answer your previous question, I usually try to attach manually using
> add_drv or update_drv
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> add_drv/update_drv -a -i '"pci8086,15bc"' e1000g
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> but that should be equivalent to what you did here...
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> It could be that this particular hardware revision requires a driver update.
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> There are some configuration parameters, not sure they are relevant...
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Looking at the code it seems that 15BC dev id is not handled so the
function to set the mac type would return a failure.
The driver likely needs an update for this class of hw.


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>> Carl
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