Drivers for network devices on new T520
Kevin Oberman
issues.
First, the keyboard (ATKBD) causes the boot process on 8.2 to
fail. There is a fix, but it has not been included in 8-Stable, so
installing 8.0 and then upgrading while installing the required fix
would work. It did, but it means I have 8.0 and I quickly learned that
8.0 did not recognize either my wireless or wired network cards. This
makes upgrading a bit difficult. I'd expected issues with the wireless,
but I had no idea the wired Ethernet world be a problem.
I am hoping that I can get one of the existing drivers to work by adding
the appropriate PCI IDs, but I don't know if it will work or which
driver to try.
The output of 'pciconf -lv' shows:
none4@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x819510ec chip=0x817610ec
rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
class = network
and
none1@pci0:0:25:0: class=0x020000 card=0x21ce17aa chip=0x15028086
rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
This was transcribed by hand, but I think it is accurate.
Do I have any hope? I can replace the wireless card, but the wired
Ethernet is of much greater concern.
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Kevin Oberman
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Sorry to reply to my own post, but I just booted up Windows and see that
the wired interface is an Intel 82579LM and the wireless is listed as a
"1x1 11b/g/n Wireless LAN PCI Express Half Mini Card Adapter.
I am sorry I neglected looking at this before sending my last
message. I'll be surprised if the Intel wired Ethernet is not supported
by some driver in 8.0.
John Baldwin
Hmmm, the Ethernet is going to be em or igb, but the problem is that
a new device ID might not be enough as often when new device IDs are
added to em/igb they come along with other changes to support stuff
specific to that device ID. Maybe try grabbing the sys/dev/e1000
directory from 8.2 and dropping that into your 8.0 tree? You could
also just grab a tarball of the 8.2 kernel tree and stick that on a
USB drive to copy it over to your laptop and then boot an 8.2 kernel
(with the keyboard fix).
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John Baldwin
Kevin Oberman
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:32:56 -0400
\me slaps head HARD.
This is the obvious solution. I spend all my time dealing with networks
and forget the days when floppies and the like were used for moving
stuff!
I'll try it as soon as I have time. I suspect that at least the will get
my wired working. The Realtek wireless may be another story. I suspect
I'll be looking for another card soon. :-(
Thanks for kicking my brain over to the right track!
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R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: obe...@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634
Last work day before retirement is Jun 17, 2011
Bernhard Schmidt
> Last week I received my new Lenovo T520 laptop and ran into immediate
> issues.
>
> First, the keyboard (ATKBD) causes the boot process on 8.2 to
> fail. There is a fix, but it has not been included in 8-Stable, so
> installing 8.0 and then upgrading while installing the required fix
> would work. It did, but it means I have 8.0 and I quickly learned that
> 8.0 did not recognize either my wireless or wired network cards. This
> makes upgrading a bit difficult. I'd expected issues with the wireless,
> but I had no idea the wired Ethernet world be a problem.
>
> I am hoping that I can get one of the existing drivers to work by adding
> the appropriate PCI IDs, but I don't know if it will work or which
> driver to try.
>
> The output of 'pciconf -lv' shows:
> none4@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x028000 card=0x819510ec chip=0x817610ec
> rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
> class = network
I haven't yet seen a driver for that one on any of the BSDs. I guess
that ndis(4) is the only solution currently available.
> and
>
> none1@pci0:0:25:0: class=0x020000 card=0x21ce17aa chip=0x15028086
> rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Intel Corporation'
> class = network
> subclass = ethernet
>
> This was transcribed by hand, but I think it is accurate.
>
> Do I have any hope? I can replace the wireless card, but the wired
> Ethernet is of much greater concern.
>
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Bernhard