Re: problem with vr0

["George Georgalis" <george@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 07:58:29AM -0800, walt wrote:
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>On Sat, 15 Jan 2005, George Georgalis wrote:
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>> I'm having a problem with an onboard vr0 interface
>>
>> # pciconf -lv
>> vr0@pci0:18:0:  class=0x020000 card=0xf6831297 chip=0x30651106 rev=0x78 hdr=0x00
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>I have rev 0x74 of the same chip, and I had a very similar problem when I first
>got the mb.  The fix turned out to be a one-liner.
>
>Unfortunately, no one seems to be updating the FreeBSD-4 driver (23 months
>since the last change).  But it would be interesting to know if the latest
>FreeBSD-current install/boot floppy supports the chip correctly.
>
>In theory ;o)  you could step thru the FBSD-5 boot floppies from various
>dates to find out which driver revision made your chip start working,
>and then work backwards to fix the analogous code in the FBSD-4 driver.
>
>Simple!
>
>Any luck with polling mode?

<sigh>, I'm preparing for a major week coming up and won't be able to
give it serious attention till next weekend. I may take a break to try
fbsd-current but I won't be able to do anything with the information,
anytime soon.

I'm happy to give dfly root access, via a second interface, if you or
anyone else qualified wants to try some code. (the box does compile fast
;-D) Of course, due to a bios flash issue, hands are required to reboot,
but I'm available for that... <sigh>

Just occurs to me. I've never heard of modules in BSD. Do they exist?
Is the vr0 driver something that can be compiled, added and removed
without rebooting?

// George


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