Bug 19499

Summary: EtherExpress 16 is not probed
Product: Base System Reporter: Carlo Wood <carlo>
Component: kernAssignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: 4.0-RELEASE   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Carlo Wood 2000-06-25 15:30:01 UTC 
	EtherExpress 16 is not probed.
	I made this conclusion after using `boot -v' and noting that
	there was no mention of 'ie' anywhere.  Then I hacked the kernel
	(file dev/ie/if_ie.c) and added a printf to ieprobe(), at the
	top; also this printf was never reached.
	Moreover, a "strings /kernel | grep 'ie%d'" clearly showed that
	the object code of the ie module was linked.
	My conclusion is that the way ISA devices are added to a kernel
	has changed (now using the macro DRIVER_MODULE(?)) but
	dev/ie/if_ie.c was never changed with as result that all the
	cards with a 82586 (AT&T StarLAN 10 and EN100; 3Com 3C507;
	unknown NI5210; Intel EtherExpress) as are *documented* to be
	supported *everywhere* (GENERIC, LINT,
	http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/install-hw.html (2.3. Supported
	Hardware)) etc. in fact does not work at all.
Comment 1 Mike Barcroft freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-07-22 05:26:50 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->feedback


Does this problem still occur in newer versions of FreeBSD, 
such as 4.3-RELEASE?
Comment 2 Mike Barcroft freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-07-22 18:39:39 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: feedback->closed


The problem only seems to be happening to the originator, and since 
he can no longer test this I'm closing this PR.  If this is still a 
problem in newer versions of FreeBSD, a new PR should be opened.
Comment 3 Mike Barcroft freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-07-22 18:47:58 UTC 
Adding to Audit-Trail.

On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 04:43:45PM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 09:27:09PM -0700, mike@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> > Synopsis: EtherExpress 16 is not probed
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> > State-Changed-By: mike
> > State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 21 21:26:50 PDT 2001
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > 
> > Does this problem still occur in newer versions of FreeBSD,
> > such as 4.3-RELEASE?
> > 
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=19499
> 
> Sorry, I don't use FreeBSD anymore - and I got rid of the
> etherexpress as well.
> 
> -- 
> Carlo Wood <carlo@alinoe.com>