My IBM (Lenovo) T43p has an Intel 2915abg wifi card
that works with the iwi driver and Nevada (currently
snv_35).
However, each time I do an upgrade to a new Nevada,
I have to fiddle with the driver_aliases file and delete
the 1010 line for the e1000g entry as if that line is there, the
e1000g driver binds to the wifi card which obviously
doesn't work.
Is there some pci id that would better describe the
IBM (Lenovo) version of the Intel wifi card so I
would not have to edit the driver_aliases file after
each upgrade? The current driver_aliases file has
the following three lines with iwi:
iwi "pci8086,4220"
iwi "pci8086,4223"
iwi "pci8086,4224"
If I run prtpci with a new pciids file, the relevant output is:
11/0x2/0 8086,4224 (8086,1010) rev 0x5
slot name: Slot1, Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG Network Connection
class 2/80/0: Network controller/Network controller
BAR[0]: 32-bit memory 0xb4002000 0x1000
/usr/X11/bin/scanpci -v gives:
pci bus 0x000b cardnum 0x02 function 0x00: vendor 0x8086 device 0x4224
Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter
CardVendor 0x8086 card 0x1010 (Intel Corporation, Card unknown)
STATUS 0x0290 COMMAND 0x0006
CLASS 0x02 0x80 0x00 REVISION 0x05
BIST 0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x40 CACHE 0x08
BASE0 0xb4002000 addr 0xb4002000 MEM
MAX_LAT 0x18 MIN_GNT 0x03 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0x0b
BYTE_0 0x80 BYTE_1 0x80 BYTE_2 0x00 BYTE_3 0x00
The relevant output of prtconf -pv is:
Node 0x00001a
assigned-addresses:
820b1010.00000000.b4002000.00000000.00001000
reg:
000b1000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.020b1010.00000000.00000000.00000000.00001000
compatible: 'pci8086,4224.8086.1010.5' +
'pci8086,4224.8086.1010' + 'pci8086,1010' + 'pci8086,4224.5' + 'pci8086,4224' +
'pciclass,028000' + 'pciclass,0280'
model: 'Network controller'
Looking at Dan Mick's blog about PCI device identification and driver
binding in Solaris, it seems like the following might work:
iwi "pci8086,4224.8086.1010.5"
Is the above an appropriate entry for /etc/driver_aliases and would
it be used in preference to the typical e1000g "pci8086,1010" line?
What I would like to happen is for the machine to
recognize the 2915 and attach iwi rather than e1000g
after the upgrade (it has happened a number of times)
adds the line:
e1000g "pci8086,1010"
to /etc/driver_aliases.
Thanks,
Stuart
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