[illumos-Developer] Illumos device drivers (Was: Solaris Future?)

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 09:09:08PM -0700, Garrett D'Amore wrote:
>
> It sounds like this would be a good thing to fix in the phy driver
> in the MII layer.  Ask me if you need some hints... I am pretty
> familiar with the MII layer.  :-)

Before I went further, I decided to install oi_148b on my ASUS laptop
and see if the existing `atge' driver handled the AR8132 ethernet
adapter.  I used this command to add an alias for it:

    update_drv -a -i '"pciex1969,1062"' atge

That produced these messages:

    Jul 29 15:46:14 asus atge: [ID 451854 kern.warning] WARNING: atge0: atge driver is attaching to unknown pci6505,4194 vendor/device-id card
    Jul 29 15:46:14 asus pcplusmp: [ID 805372 kern.info] pcplusmp: pciex1969,1062 (atge) instance 0 irq 0x19 vector 0x61 ioapic 0xff intin 0xff is bound to cpu 0
    Jul 29 15:46:14 asus mac: [ID 469746 kern.info] NOTICE: atge0 registered
    Jul 29 15:46:14 asus mii: [ID 427086 kern.info] atge0: Using 1000BASE-T Ethernet PHY at 1: Atheros/Attansic PHY

Does that all look reasonable?  Then I plumbed atge0 and configured it
with an IP address.  That produced this message:

    Jul 29 15:46:26 asus mac: [ID 435574 kern.info] NOTICE: atge0 link up, 100 Mbps, full duplex

`ifconfig -a' and `netstat -rn' both looked correct, but I couldn't get
any traffic through it with `ping' from either end.  `netstat -i' showed
only zeros after the initial traffic, 38 output and zero input.  What
could be wrong?

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-Gary Mills-        -Unix Group-        -Computer and Network Services-