New Dell Optiplex 990 Network card problem

Phil Nelson

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May 13, 2011, 2:15:15 PM5/13/11

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Hello,

I just got a new Dell Optiplex 990 and it contains an Integrated Intel
82579LM Ethernet LAN 10/100/1000 device. It appears as pci vendor 0x8086,
product 0x1502. I'm hoping that this is similar enough to a current device
so it just needs to have the vendor/product added. Does anyone know if
this is the case?

--Phil

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Paul Goyette

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May 13, 2011, 2:43:00 PM5/13/11

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Maybe it's close to the wm driver's i82573 ?

Maybe check the datasheets?

On Fri, 13 May 2011, Phil Nelson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I just got a new Dell Optiplex 990 and it contains an Integrated Intel
> 82579LM Ethernet LAN 10/100/1000 device. It appears as pci vendor 0x8086,
> product 0x1502. I'm hoping that this is similar enough to a current device
> so it just needs to have the vendor/product added. Does anyone know if
> this is the case?
>
> --Phil
>
> --
> Phil Nelson (phil at cs.wwu.edu) http://www.cs.wwu.edu/nelson
> NetBSD: http://www.NetBSD.org Coda: http://www.coda.cs.cmu.edu
> Life: http://www.goallpower.com
>

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Greg Oster

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May 13, 2011, 3:41:38 PM5/13/11

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On Fri, 13 May 2011 15:24:23 -0400
SAITOH Masanobu <msa...@execsw.org> wrote:

> I'm now writing the patch.

Cool!! I have a Gateway DX4850-45CU that has the 82579V chip. I'm
certainly happy to help with testing on this. (The 82579V shows up as
vendor 0x8086, product 0x1503, and I see you already have it listed in
your patch :) )

Later...

Greg Oster

> Attached patch may work for you. 82579 support is not completed yet
> because I have a little time to write it now. Only 1 hour work...
>
> BTW: I'm now in Ottawa.

>
> (2011/05/13 14:15), Phil Nelson wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I just got a new Dell Optiplex 990 and it contains an Integrated
> > Intel 82579LM Ethernet LAN 10/100/1000 device. It appears as pci
> > vendor 0x8086, product 0x1502. I'm hoping that this is similar
> > enough to a current device so it just needs to have the
> > vendor/product added. Does anyone know if this is the case?
> >
> > --Phil
> >
>
>
> --

> -----------------------------------------------
> SAITOH Masanobu (msa...@execsw.org
> msa...@netbsd.org)

Phil Nelson

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May 13, 2011, 4:17:34 PM5/13/11

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On Friday 13 May 2011 12:24:23 pm SAITOH Masanobu wrote:
> I'm now writing the patch.
>

Thanks much. I'll check it out.

Phil Nelson

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May 16, 2011, 2:36:06 PM5/16/11

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On Friday 13 May 2011 1:17:34 pm Phil Nelson wrote:
> On Friday 13 May 2011 12:24:23 pm SAITOH Masanobu wrote:
> > I'm now writing the patch.
> >
>
> Thanks much. I'll check it out.

That caused the hardware to work. It is not a complete solution
as the media and the status are not properly found by ifconfig.
This is with the card in use. (numbers changed...)
(This is an Integrated Intel 82579LM Ethernet LAN 10/100/1000 device)

$ ifconfig -a
wm0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
capabilities=7ff80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx,UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx,TCP6CSUM_Rx,TCP6CSUM_Tx,UDP6CSUM_Rx,UDP6CSUM_Tx,TSO6>
enabled=0
address: 00:00:00:00:00:00
media: Ethernet none (none)
inet 192.168.0.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
inet6 fe80::...

Greg Oster

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May 20, 2011, 7:34:07 PM5/20/11

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On Fri, 20 May 2011 11:22:13 +0900
SAITOH Masanobu <msa...@execsw.org> wrote:

> I've commited the changes to support 82579.
>
> wm0 at pci0 dev 25 function 0: PCH2 LAN (82579LM) Controller, rev. 4
> wm0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
> wm0: PCI-Express bus
> wm0: FLASH
> wm0: Ethernet address f0:de:f1:54:1e:37
> ihphy0 at wm0 phy 2: i82579 10/100/1000 media interface, rev. 3
> ihphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
> 1000baseT-FDX, auto

Works great on my 82579V chip too! Thanks!!!

wm0 at pci0 dev 25 function 0: PCH2 LAN (82579V) Controller, rev. 4
wm0: interrupting at ioapic0 pin 20
wm0: PCI-Express bus
wm0: FLASH
wm0: Ethernet address f8:0f:41:xx:xx:xx
ihphy0 at wm0 phy 2: i82579 10/100/1000 media interface, rev. 3
ihphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
1000baseT-FDX, auto

Later...

Greg Oster

> (2011/05/14 5:20), SAITOH Masanobu wrote:
> > The content type of my last .dif file was video/x-dv...
> > So, I resend it.

> >
> > (2011/05/13 16:17), Phil Nelson wrote:
> >> On Friday 13 May 2011 12:24:23 pm SAITOH Masanobu wrote:
> >>> I'm now writing the patch.
> >>>
> >>
> >> Thanks much. I'll check it out.
> >>
> >> --Phil
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
> --

> -----------------------------------------------
> SAITOH Masanobu (msa...@execsw.org
> msa...@netbsd.org)

Later...

Greg Oster

Brian Buhrow

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May 20, 2011, 8:07:29 PM5/20/11

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Hello. Canyou test to see if the hardware ip4csum flags work with
these new chips as well? (I mean all of the flags, not just the example,
of course.) They don't work with the 82576 chip, and I'm thinking of
trying to fix this. I'd like to know if I need to be aware of the 82579
while I'm doing this.
-thanks
-Brian

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